"Unable to find swap-space signature"

[Lee Braiden]

On Sunday 11 September 2005 15:16, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I get the error message
> 	Unable to find swap-space signature
> on bootup. This doesn't make sense to me, because
>
> 1) /etc/fstab contains the line
>
> /dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
>
> Should I worry about the error?

The swap "filesystem" is damaged, not the partition itself.  Do:

swapoff -a
mkswap /dev/hda5
swapon -a

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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