I've got a strange error message regarding my Swap partition. Here's the background:
I have my main Linux distro, SuSE 9.2, on hdb2. I had a duplicate copy of this distro on hdb3. I installed Debian over the duplicate on hdb3. When installing Debian, the installer would not go forward unless /dev/hdb5 was formatted in addition to hdb3. Hdb5 is my swap partition. After rebooting after the Debian install, SuSE would not boot. I used a SuSE rescue CD which fixed a FSTAB entry, and now SuSE boots. But while using the SuSE rescue CD I got an error message saying that /dev/hdb5 contains an unknown file system. Everything seems to be working and I just put in the rescue CD to check once more for problems. When the rescue utility starts I get a box with this message: "Activate Swap Partition /dev/hdb5 The partition /dev/hdb5 has the file system ID 130 and contains a valid swap area. Activating this swap partition increases the performance of the repair tool. Press "Yes" to activate the swap partition." After I press "Yes" and the repair tool continues to do its work it ultimately returns this error message: "/dev/hdb5 contains unknown file system." While SuSE seems to be working, I haven't used it much as I'm downloading Debian packages. But I'm wondering if SuSE is activating the swap partition when it boots. I didn't realize that there was more than one swap file system. I thought swap was swap. But note that SuSE is using reiserfs and Debian is using ext3. So here are some questions: 1) Will SuSE run into problems if I start doing some memory intensive work, or do you think SuSE is activating swap when it boots? 2) Since SuSE is my main system and Debian is just a training tool, is there some way to re-partition the swap partition in the way SuSE's reiserfs likes? Thank you. Bob _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech