On Thursday 08 May 2008 03:01:32 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> Pastor JW wrote:
> First, look in /etc/fstab and you should see a line that says:
> UUID=59722752810d5c-61ab-4942-afa2-9e6e953f839d none swap sw 0 0
> (at least approximately). With luck, the previous line is a comment
> showing what the real device name is (these got placed there in an earlier
> upgrade process).
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=1fb32910-543c-4394-b749-524eee23d9c1 / ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=52810d5c-61ab-4942-afa2-9e6e953f839d none swap sw
0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
> So then, you'd want to check that nothing else was actually mounting a file
> system on that partition.
>
> Do something like this (I'm not certain sfdisk is present by default, and
> of course you need to use the correct name for your drive):
>
> $ sudo sfdisk /dev/sda -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 14593 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 0+ 2674 2675- 21486906 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 13542 14592 1051 8442157+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
> /dev/sda4 2675 13541 10867 87289177+ 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 13168+ 13541 374- 3004123+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6 2675+ 2917 243- 1951834+ 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 2918+ 13167 10250- 82333093+ 8e Linux LVM
>
> If you see something saying "Linux swap / Solaris", that's your swap
> partition, if it matches the one in /etc/fstab, even better! In either
> case, you can replace the UUID=59722752810d5c-61ab-4942-afa2-9e6e953f839d
> part of the line in /etc/fstab with the /dev/ name, save fstab, then "sudo
> swapon -a" should give you a swap partition.
Yep, running that command gave me this:
Disk /dev/sda: 14593 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0+ 7 8- 64228+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 8 660 653 5245222+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3 * 661 14020 13360 107314200 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 14021 14592 572 4594590 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 14021+ 14592 572- 4594558+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
So I do have a swap but why are sda4 and sda5 both looking like they start
and end at the same location? I so far have not found a way to edit
fstab, ...well I CAN edit it, but I can't save it.
> > Besides,
> > I have not found a backup system for this machine yet. Wouldn't creating
> > a swap mean I'd have to cut it out of an existing partition? I'd suspect
> > then the existing data is in danger of being damaged. This was a factory
> > install of 7.10 from directly from Dell and it has no foreign Operating
> > Systems on
> > it. It was upgraded to 8.04 on-line using update manager.
>
> I'd be hugely surprised if it didn't have a swap partition when they
> created it. If it doesn't, you should complain. Hopefully, as a pastor,
> you have better complaint skills than I do, because I gave up on them when
> they flatly refused to honor my warranty.
I'm pretty poor at complaining, usually I get to listen to them not make
them!! ;)
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