In message <Pine.OSF.3.91.961216144327.13743A-100000@platon>
          Mark P Hoyle <markho@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk> wrote:

> Due to a current lack of swap space - I am wanting to add some more.
> I have repartitioned by drive wd1 to include a swap partition at 
> partition b.
> 
> When I try to start using the space, I get the error:
> swapon: /dev/wd1b: device not configured
> 
> [this is using both swapon -a (having adjusted /etc/fstab accordingly)
> and swapon /dev/wd1b]
> 
> Any help from anyone?

Can you access the other partition you created on this drive?
We'd first have to narrow down if it's a problem with the disk in general or
only with swapping to it...

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