My swap is gone?!

[Jan Morén]

Update - on a tip from a friend, I ran mkswap on the partition and now
it works. It still leaves unanswered why it disappeared and why running
mkswap was necessary. 

I think I'll go do a backup now :)

tis 2004-11-23 klockan 17:16 +0900 skrev Jan Morén:
> I run Matthew Garret's 2.6.9 kernel (so suspend to RAM works), and I
> just noticed that my swap is gone. 
> 
> "free" shows zero swapspace, and trying to run "sudo swapon -a" just
> gives me an error that hda5 is not a valid argument.
> 
> /proc/swaps exists but is empty.
> 
> 
> I know I had a swap partition - I made one on install. It is not
> critical in itself (I have enough memory), but I worry that this could
> be an indication of deeper, coming troble.
> 
> 
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>  
> Tel. (Japan) 090-3622 8920            Dr. Jan Morén (mr)
>                                       Dept. of Cognitive Science
> http://lucs.lu.se/people/jan.moren    Lund, Sweden
> 
> 
-- 
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
 
Tel. (Japan) 090-3622 8920            Dr. Jan Morén (mr)
                                      Dept. of Cognitive Science
http://lucs.lu.se/people/jan.moren    Lund, Sweden