Re: Re: Support for > 2GB swap partitions?

[Nikola Ciprich]

the reason is, that fdisk did set swap partition, but it did not set
swap header as it's not its task (as is not creating filesystems).
mkswap must be always used while creating new swap partitions/files.

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 05:09 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Oops, for some reason when I created the partitions with fdisk it did not 
> create the swap parititon correctly even though I specified it was type 
> swap.  mkswap /dev/sda2 && swapon /dev/sda2 fixed the problem, thanks.
> 


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