"Unable to find swap-space signature"

[James Livingston]

On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 10:57 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 03:47:23PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote:
> > The swap "filesystem" is damaged, not the partition itself.  Do:
> > 
> > swapoff -a
> > mkswap /dev/hda5
> > swapon -a
> 
> Sweet! That did the trick, Lee; thanks. Digging in a little
> bit: why can't Linux fix that problem on its own at bootup?

It's to be safe, in case your drives or partitions have become
reordered. I can't imagine many people would be happy if one of their
data partitions became hda5, and Linux automatically "fixed" it and
starting writing swap data all over it.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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