Re: suspend to disk not working due to swap space failure

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Tuesday 08 August 2006 15:13, rasmit.ranjan@wipro.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>     In my laptop, suspend to disk was working properly.But after so many
> days I tried it today.But it failed. First time i tried it showed " Not
> enough space, Error -12 suspending".But i tried once more. Then it
> failed  showing "error: can not find swap device, try swapon -a ".This
> seems my swap partition is not active. So I tried "swapon -a" but it did
> not work. Also the output of "swapon -s " shows nothing. I tried "cat
> /proc/swaps" but this shows nothing as well. So i tried creating a new
> swap space by the command " mkswap". But still my swap partition does
> not come up. I reboot my system but that did not work as well. What
> might be the problem? 

The header of your swap partition got lost.  Please try
"mkswap <your_swap_partition_name>" and then swapon -a.  If it works, the
suspend should work either.

Greetings,
Rafael