[CLUE-Tech] Who do I surrender to?

David Anselmi anselmi at americanisp.net
Fri May 30 21:34:26 MDT 2003


Chris Tubutis wrote:
[...]
> 
> IIRC the swap partition isn't formatted, it's merely a "raw" partition
> without a filesystem. Ensuring the partition type is set correctly to
> Type 82 (Linux Swap) should suffice. Perhaps you can just create an
> unused partition using your Mac fdisk utility, then use the Debian fdisk
> utility to properly (re)label it.

That's probably pretty close, but after you label a partition as swap 
you have to run mkswap on it (which "formats" it, so I wouldn't call it 
raw).  And then run swapon to use it.

Dave




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