Re: Big Swap...

[Robert Dinse]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 
> Grab recent util-linux, say 2.9w has it for sure.
> If you run RHL, look into 6.1 RPMS, if you run Debian, I'm pretty sure they
> have it packaged as well.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Jakub

     I grabbed 2.10d, installed the disk-utils portion and the swapon program. 
Didn't do a full install because it would hose other aspects of my userland
environment. 

     Now I can't seem to create a swap partition that I can swapon at all.

     The swapon system call returns EINVAL; but it IS a block special device,
so I don't know what's wrong now.  If I dd one of the old swap devices onto
the new device, then I CAN mount it would tells me it's something in the device
that mkswap wrote that it doesn't like, but it explodes even if I tell to use
the old -v0 version.