Swap problems

[russell cook]

This is weird, I checked my latop (machine 3) and it has the same
problem.

I ended up fixing with parted, mkfs (partition no.) linux-swap
and then used swapon -a  to activate.
That seems to have fixed it. I'll reboot to see if it "sticks"


On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 09:45 +1000, russell cook wrote:

> Hi folks,
> my two machines that I've down synaptic updates on seem to have lost
> their swap partitions.
> When I run sudo swapon -a I get " swapon: /dev/hda6: Invalid
> argument". hda6 is what's in my fstab file and what I set up on
> original install.
> 
> Any help appreciated as I'm not sure what to do here.
> 
> Kind Regards Russell
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Kind Regards Russell
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