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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