swap partition error

props666999 · 11-20-2004, 12:40 PM

booting suse 9.1 personal edition i got a failure enabling the swap memory . In /etc/fstab
i can see
/dev/hda3 swap swap pri=42 0 0

and also under Yast Partitioning panel there is an entry of this partition . Ive'got 512 mb memory

how can i enable the swap memory ?

thank you

david_ross · 11-20-2004, 01:24 PM

Perhaps you should format it again. Just run:
mkswap /dev/hda3

Then see if you can swapon

props666999 · 11-20-2004, 01:36 PM

thanks david_ross worked fine