Re: Activating swap... failed. [SOLVED]

2009-06-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Turns out it was Bastille leftovers (most likely). A few programs in /sbin had 000 permissions, including swap* and hwclock (hence my time issues)... Swap mounts now. There was supposed to be an undo file in /var/log/Bastille/backup but i couldn't find none, and purging said package didn't revert

Re: Activating swap

1999-01-30 Thread dan
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 12:12:56AM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: > No, it will destroy all data on the partition. This is quite an important > distinction :) Oops. That's what I meant. -- Dan Gohman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Activating swap

1999-01-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, dan wrote: > > How do I activate that swap? > > You need to setup the swap space first. try 'mkswap /dev/hda5'. It's the > same as (only different) making a filesystem before mounting in. > > This will destroy all data on the drive. No, it will destroy all data on the pa

Re: Activating swap

1999-01-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
> How do I activate that swap? mkswap Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/

Re: Activating swap

1999-01-30 Thread dan
> How do I activate that swap? You need to setup the swap space first. try 'mkswap /dev/hda5'. It's the same as (only different) making a filesystem before mounting in. This will destroy all data on the drive. -- Dan Gohman [EMAIL PROTECTED]