Re: making a new swap partition

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner best com>]

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On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 zappa inetnow net wrote:

> Hi all,
> I need to repartition my drive but I want to preserve my linux install so
> the only linux partition I am going to change is swap partition. Now what
> I need to know is after I create the swap partition with fdisk do I need
> to format the swap partition? If so what command do I need to use?
> Thanks,
> - Mandarth
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