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Swap partition problem

Post by George Hotellin » Thu, 16 Jan 1997 04:00:00



I get an error everytime I try to boot Linux, saying that the swap
partition is foobar, and I should run e2fsck (I think that's the prog,
I'm still a newbie).  I ran it, and it says to run it with the -b option
and it suggests a superblock.  Then I get an error saying bad
superblock, and to make sure the partition exists. So my question is
what to do now?  I could re-install Linux, as I lost some other files
with the swap partition (I did the unthinkable, I had to cut the power
while logged in as root.  Keyboard died) but I'm hoping that there's an
easier way.  BTW, I tried using fdisk to delete the partition and
reinstall it.  Finally, I've got 16 megs of RAM, do I even NEED a swap
partition?

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Swap partition problem

Post by David Sye » Fri, 17 Jan 1997 04:00:00



> I get an error everytime I try to boot Linux, saying that the swap
> partition is foobar, and I should run e2fsck (I think that's the prog,
> I'm still a newbie).  I ran it, and it says to run it with the -b option
> and it suggests a superblock.  Then I get an error saying bad
> superblock, and to make sure the partition exists. So my question is
> what to do now?  I could re-install Linux, as I lost some other files
> with the swap partition (I did the unthinkable, I had to cut the power
> while logged in as root.  Keyboard died) but I'm hoping that there's an
> easier way.  BTW, I tried using fdisk to delete the partition and
> reinstall it.  Finally, I've got 16 megs of RAM, do I even NEED a swap
> partition?

I won't try and advise you on whether you *need* swap or not (I do).
But with 16M you can at least boot and run happily in a console without
swap, so do it (swapoff -a, or remove swap entries from  /etc/fstab and
reboot).  Then run `mkswap /dev/your_swap_partition'.  Swap partitions
do not have ext2 filesystems on the, so no wonder e2fsck didn't like
it.  Test it with `swapon /dev/your_swap_partition'.

Dave.

 
 
 
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1. Swap partition problem

I recently installed a new hard drive and decided to set aside 100M of
the new drive for a swap partition.  I used fdisk -t and assigned the
partition the swap type.  I exited fdisk with w and checked the
assignments, everything looked fine.  When I rebooted and did fdisk -l,
it stated the partition was unknown and the type it was assigned was
92.  I did fdisk again and the same thing happened (and still happens)
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