On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Markus Baeurle wrote:

> 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...

I can access the other partition on the drive and use it all the time 
(its my /home/local partition) - and so far I have had no luck with using 
the b partition as extra swap space (I really do wish that netscape would 
not bloat X servers).

Cheers,

mark

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