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From: "Jan Kundrát" <jan.kundrat@fzu.cz>
To: Adam Heath <doogie@brainfood.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: mkswap in guests
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:49:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41E83E4F.4010802@fzu.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0501141316230.21792@gradall.private.brainfood.com>

Adam Heath wrote:
> kaffe:/home/doogie# mkswap /dev/hda
> mkswap: Will not try to make swapdevice on '%s'
> 
> Is this supposed to work?  See my previous email as for the mapping.

Probably the `mkswap` is confused as you're telling it to use "entire 
disk", not only partition. `mkswap -f` could help you, or just export it 
as /dev/hda1.

-jkt

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-14 21:49 UTC|newest]

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2005-01-14 19:16 mkswap in guests Adam Heath
2005-01-14 21:49 ` Jan Kundrát [this message]

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