swapon not working

[Paul Howarth]

Dan Track wrote:
> I just created a partition using fdisk. I labelled the partition "82"
> i.e swap. Now when I do "swapon /dev/hda9" I get "swapon: /dev/hda9:
> Invalid argument".
> 
> Can anyone help me fix this?

Did you format the swap partition?

See "man mkswap"

Paul.