[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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