[solved] Swap partition creating error

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strubbldesign · Post by **strubbldesign** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:53 pm

Hello!

ERROR
mkswap /dev/hdc3 (That's my swap partiton)
(Partitionstable has been written and saved bevore that)

swap area needs to be at least 40 kB

What does that mean? And how do i solve this Problem?

nicegreetings by sd

kimchi_sg · Post by **kimchi_sg** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:07 pm

Post the output of the following command:

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fdisk -l

And didn't I tell you to enclose error messages between [code] (error message) [/code] tags? You may be able to read what you post, but do not assume other people can read clearly what the error message is, if you do not use those tags to enclose them in a special formatting.

strubbldesign · Post by **strubbldesign** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:34 pm

Hello!

error by using order mkswap /dev/hdc3 (swappartition)
make swap error:
swap area needs to be at least 40 kb
Usage: mkswap (-c) (-c) (-v0l-v1) (-pPAGESZ) /dev/name (blocks)

"(" = "["

so plz help mee!

kimchi_sg · Post by **kimchi_sg** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:39 pm

strubbldesign wrote:Hello!

error by using order mkswap /dev/hdc3 (swappartition)
make swap error:
swap area needs to be at least 40 kb
Usage: mkswap (-c) (-c) (-v0l-v1) (-pPAGESZ) /dev/name (blocks)

"(" = "["

so plz help mee!

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strubbldesign · Post by **strubbldesign** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:12 pm

Hello!

error by using order mkswap /dev/hdc3 (swappartition)

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swap area needs to be at least 40 kb 
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-c] [-v0l-v1] [-pPAGESZ] /dev/name (blocks)

OK I hope it's formated correctly. If not send me the correct form plz
And have a little pations for me

Earthwings · Post by **Earthwings** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:08 pm

As already mentioned, the output of fdisk -l will be helpful for us to allow helping you.

Duck-Billed Platypus · Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:19 pm

you might not have changed the type to swap

strubbldesign · Post by **strubbldesign** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:01 pm

fdisk -l

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 255 heads, 63 sectors / track 3722 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device       Boot    Start    End   Block        ID     System
/dev/hdc3             668      730    560047+  5      Extended

help plz

Sven Vermeulen · Post by **Sven Vermeulen** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:07 pm

The type "Extended" is wrong to begin with.

Fire up fdisk /dev/hdc, type t to change the partition type, enter 3 to select /dev/hdc3 and give it the type 82 (Linux swap).