[lug] DOH- swap space

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Tue Feb 13 19:05:16 MST 2001


On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:06:51PM -0700, ljp wrote:
>Ok, in my haste to get linux running again, I forgot to fdisk a swap 
>partition.
>Anyone know how to start a swap file?

Once you have the partition set up with fdisk (type 83), you do
"mkswap /dev/hdaN".

Sean
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