Don't use 1234 as your password

Re:Don't use 1234 as your password by jrockway on Sunday November 17, 2013 @09:10PM (#6752112)

Heh, I also destroyed my Linux system at about that age. "swapon /dev/hda". Oops.

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Re:Don't use 1234 as your password by kondor6c on Monday November 18, 2013 @12:34AM (#6752770)

Wouldn't you need to initialize the partition with 'mkswap'?

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Re:Don't use 1234 as your password by jrockway on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @01:33AM (#6759624)

Apparently not. Try it :)

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Re:Don't use 1234 as your password by kondor6c on Friday November 22, 2013 @03:02PM (#6783357)

sorry for the old post, but I did try it and it refuses to activate swap on a non-swap enabled device. Now I assume that you had done that a while back (judging from the hda device) so there are probably now some extra safety checks (good thing too!) :-D well I'm sorry for your loss long ago :-)

[root@localhost ~]# swapon /dev/sdb

swapon: /dev/sdb: read swap header failed: Invalid argument

*edited the formating

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