Re: Swap partition

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  2 Sep, zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz wrote about "Swap partition"
> Hi all
> 
> I used to have a 16MB swap partition on hda2 but i deleted it and added a
> bigger partition using fdisk which has now become hda5.
> 
> The problem is that when i shut down the system... it comes up with a
> prompt deactivating swap...cannot find hda2.
> 
> So basically i think that the system is still set up to use hda2 which is
> now replaced with hda5... how can i reconfigure the system to use hda5?
> 


Edit /etc/fstab and change the /dev/hda2 for the swap to /dev/hda5.

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Brian 
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