swap has stopped working - FC4
Alastair McKinley
amckinley03 at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 16 01:36:58 UTC 2007
Hi everyone,
Using FC4 on my laptop here. Tonight I rebooted and the thing took
minutes to boot up for no appartent reason including many long tense
moments of blank screens.
The only error message I noticed was it failed to start up swap. When
I try to start it from the command line this happens:
[root at localhost alastair]# swapon -v /dev/sda5
swapon on /dev/sda5
swapon: /dev/sda5: Invalid argument
And in dmesg:
Unable to find swap-space signature
Here is the partition table of my hard disk:
[root at localhost alastair]# parted /dev/sda print
Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-76319.085 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 40967.226 primary ntfs boot
3 40967.227 51214.570 primary fat32 lba
4 51214.570 72270.351 extended lba
5 51214.601 52499.179 logical
6 52499.210 72270.351 logical ext3
2 72270.352 76316.132 primary fat32
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
So what has happened to my swap? I hope this is also the reason for
the very slow boot! Any ideas?
Cheers,
Alastair
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