thunderbird pegs and hogs hard drive disc io

[Nils Kassube]

thufir wrote:
> thufir at tleilax:~$ sudo swapon /dev/sda2
> swapon: /dev/sda2: read swap header failed

> thufir at tleilax:~$ sudo fdisk -l

> Device     Boot     Start       End  Sectors  Size Id Type

> /dev/sda2 147926520 156296384  8369865    4G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

To me it looks like someone forgot to use mkswap:

sudo mkswap /dev/sda2

After that command the swapon should work.


Nils