Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>    I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully.  I forgot to put "resume=" into
> my lilo.conf (oops).  I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to...
>
> hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ...
> s2disk: Could not use the resume device (try swapon -a). Reason: No such device
>
> ...and backs out gracefully.  According to "fdisk -l", swap is there...
>
>
> [d530][root][~] fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xd0000000
>
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1       60801   488384001    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5               1          62      497952   83  Linux
> /dev/sda6              63         549     3911796   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda7             550       60801   483974158+  83  Linux
>
> ...but according to swapon, it's not...
>
>
> [d530][root][~] swapon -a
> swapon: /dev/sda6: Invalid argument
>
>
>    What did I did?  And how do I straighten it out?

mkswap /dev/sda6
swapon /dev/sda6
?



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