mkswap on every boot

[Jeff Vian]

Steve Pyatt wrote:

>>>>I'm running FC2 and have my swap setup on a separate drive. It was 
>>>>formatted as a swap and everything looks good in /etc/fstab. However 
>>>>every time I reboot I have to run a mkswap and swapon against it. Is 
>>>>there any thoughts on this? Or is there anyway I can get that done on
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>>My fstab has this for swap.  Is yours the same?
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>>/dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults
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I wonder if that is the reason.?

You implied that FC2 is installed on a different drive, and this shows 
that swap is the first partition on the first drive (the one containing 
the MBR).  While I don't know that this would have an effect, I have 
never done a system that way.  I usually put swap on a later partition 
on the first drive or on a later drive.

What happens if you relocate this swap partiton to a later drive, for 
example, move it to be hdc and update the fstab accordingly. (assuming 
your drive with FC2 is hdb or some such.)

You may need to install grub on a different drive to do this.