I guess this is because mkswap doesn't wipe the metadata out, so you ended up with multiple conflicting metadata in that partition (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda2 would have probably fixed it)
util-linux-ng 2.15-rc1's release notes say that mkswap now handles this -- cannot convert NTFS partition to swap https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346358 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
