Re: Problem with swap partition.

[Darrell A. Escola]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:04:57AM -0500, David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote:
> Hello.
> I have just changed to a new hard disk:
> 
> Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 77545 cylinders
> 
> Nr AF  Hd Sec  Cyl  Hd Sec  Cyl    Start     Size ID
>  1 00   1   1    0  15  63   65       63    66465 83
>  2 00   0   1   66  15  63 1023    66528 77952672 83
>  3 00  15  63 1023  15  63 1023 78019200   146160 82
>  4 00   0   0    0   0   0    0        0        0 00
> 
> The 3'rd partition is a Linux Swap,
> /dev/hdc3         77401     77545     73080   82  Linux swap
> 
> but swapon -a gives
> swapon: /dev/hdc5: Invalid argument
> 

Is hcd5 in your /etc/fstab? - might need to change that to hdc3

Darrell