420 wont mount swap partition? (solved)

[buford]

so far i have tried making it both primary and extended either way using linux swap as file type.either way it wont mount it.
I keep thinking im doing something wrong.

oh this is a full install the size of the swap is 2 gig.
sda1 puppy 420 deeper thought
sda2 windows
sda3 swap file

[rjbrewer]

buford;

If you made a swap partition it is mounted at boot; it does not
have an icon on desktop. You can see it by running g-parted
or typing "free" in console.

A swap file is not a swap partition.
2 gb of swap is rather large.

[buford]

at boot is says something like

mounting linux swap file sda3 failed


and gparted says its unknown partition.no matter how many times i redo it

[sky king]

I'm just a beginner, too. But I think your swap is in use, that's why you can't do anything to it. Changing it while it's being used would mess up the system. If I'm wrong about this, I'm sure someone more familiar with Linux will respond.

[Bruce B]

at boot is says something like

mounting linux swap file sda3 failed

and gparted says its unknown partition.no matter how many times i redo it

If it says it failed that means it thought sda3 was a swap
partition, which means the ID is 0x82, but that doesn't
mean it is formatted.

If you are sure sda3 is a swap partition then format it by
yourself.

Using the command line.

Verify the ID value with fdisk -l (lowcase L)

If 0x82 it reads as decimal 82

If 82, then mkswap /dev/sda3 and yes any data on sda3
and only on sda3 will be lost, so no mistakes are allowed
on your part.

Then sync

Then swapon /dev/sda3

Then if errors on activating it, report back what they
were.

[buford]

all of it worked was .82 and all except swapon /dev/sda3
says invalid argument
so now i try reboot i guess
i would have copy and pasted but i couldnt figure out how.

no luck said samething during boot.
something like mounting linux swap partions failed

[Bruce B]

Your 2GB swap device is too big I think. But I didn't think it
would be a problem or even that it is a problem. But
obviously there is a problem.

Would be interested in knowing how much RAM because
the combination of a big swap partition plus a lot of RAM
might be a problem.

Here is your swapon help which only needs the DEVICE
name as the argument, although there are some other
options.

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BusyBox v1.13.3 (2009-03-19 17:52:06 GMT-8) multi-call binary

Usage: swapon [-a] [-p pri] [DEVICE]

Start swapping on DEVICE

Options:
        -a      Start swapping on all swap devices
        -p pri  Set swap device priority

[buford]

thanks for you help bruce
solved

lowerd size to 999 mb
did swapon /dev/sda3
rebooted
works fine

[mikeb]

and gparted says its unknown partition.no matter how many times i redo it

suggests to me a gparted problem...it does have the odd quirk resulting in invisible partitions. Cfdisk and fdisk seem to do a more consistant job

mike

[Deacon]

MODERATOR: Please move this message to the appropriate place, as I just found this thread off a search, sorry

Hello,

Successfully did a full install of Precise Puppy 5.5 but I can't seem to get my swap working. It fails on boot, but when I try to reformat the partition, I get this message in full, emphasis below:

GParted 0.11.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid

Libparted 2.3
Format /dev/sda2 as linux-swap 00:00:01 ( ERROR )

calibrate /dev/sda2 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )

path: /dev/sda2
start: 484,202,496
end: 486,299,647
size: 2,097,152 (1.00 GiB)
set partition type on /dev/sda2 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS )

new partition type: linux-swap(v1)
create new linux-swap file system 00:00:00 ( ERROR )

mkswap -L "" /dev/sda2

mkswap: /lib/libblkid.so.1: version `BLKID_2.21' not found (required by mkswap)


Is a dependency missing? Or am I doing something wrong?

Strangely, I tried the mkswap command and got the same italicized message.

[rcrsn51]

I can confirm this problem in Precise 5.5. You should report it as a bug here.

[Deacon]

I can confirm this problem in Precise 5.5. You should report it as a bug here.

It does appear someone did that and linked back here.

Update: downloading the PET here fixes it.