Walter Dnes wrote:
I ran hibernate once unsuccessfully. I forgot to put "resume=" into
my lilo.conf (oops). I finally did that, but now, hiberate gets to...
hibernate: Running /usr/sbin/s2disk ...
s2disk: Could not use the resume device (try swapon -a). Reason: No such device
...and backs out gracefully. According to "fdisk -l", swap is there...
[d530][root][~] fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 60801 488384001 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1 62 497952 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 63 549 3911796 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 550 60801 483974158+ 83 Linux
...but according to swapon, it's not...
[d530][root][~] swapon -a
swapon: /dev/sda6: Invalid argument
What did I did? And how do I straighten it out?
mkswap /dev/sda6
swapon /dev/sda6
?
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They had to edit the first ending of 'Lone Wolf McQuade' after Chuck
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