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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Kundr=E1t?= <jan.kundrat@fzu.cz>
Subject: Re: mkswap in guests
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:49:03 +0100
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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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