Hi,

I was using parted to resize my partitions and I had to wipe my swap partition. Can someone help me to recreate it? Thank you!

Had to wipe it? While I dont think you have to have a swap partition, your current setup might not like it. Why not restore your partitions, and plan how you're going to split your drive in future?
Use parted again?

Umm,

I don't think I can do that as it's already been done. Any other ideas?

As root do the following.
Create a partition using fdisk, cfdisk etc of the size desired.

Change its filetype to swap.

mkswap -c -v1 /dev/hdxy (use actual drive partition id for x & y)

Edit /etc/fstab to change partition ID of swap file

swapon /dev/hdxy

Okay, here is what is happening:

I go into FDISK and type exactly as follows:

:fdisk /dev/hda
:The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9732.
:There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
:and could in certain setups cause problems with:
:1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
:2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
: (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
:
Okay, I created an extended partition here that was 512 MB large.
Then, I tried to change the flag type to swap and it won't let me. It says I have to delete the partition first.

So, next what I tried to do is go into parted and do it that way. However, this isn't working either. This is what I have so far. . .

Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 4000.561 primary ntfs
2 4000.562 4102.536 primary ext3 boot
3 4102.537 14998.183 primary ext3
4 14998.184 15508.059 extended lba

What I am attempting to do is change the flag on the lba to a swap and it doesn't not keep the changes. Any ideas?

Nope, except delete the extended partition and create a primary with swap filesystem type.

Thanks, I got it.

But one more question, what do I need to change in /etc/fstab? I've included it here.

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Thanks.

/dev/hdxy swap swap defaults 0 0

Where x is the drive ID letter and y is the partition ID #

Okay, check this out. I put in that argument and when I boot up, I get an "invalid argument" error. I put it in verbatim as you said. . .

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0

I'm using Mandrake but I wouldn't think it would be different on RH.

Well, I don't know because I took that line out and it boots up fine. Does anyone else have any ideas?