Yeah, my mistake.  Typo'ed it. :)

In any case, indeed compile your own version..  If you are using a
distro-provided kernel I may be suspicious as well.

Works fine here on debian though.. *shrug*

-Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org
> [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Daniel Taylor
> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 8:06 PM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: RE: [TCLUG] LARGE swap
>
>
> On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Phil Doroff wrote:
>
> > Strange,
> >
> > have you tried mkswap -v2?  (man is your friend)
>
> I had a suspicion on this, -v1 is the correct argument.
> My friend is man, the original swap type is gotten by -v0.
>
> However:
> > > dragon# fdisk -l /dev/hda | grep hda2
> > > /dev/hda2            10       219   1686825   82  Linux swap
> > > dragon# mkswap -v1 -v -c /dev/hda2
> Note here--------------^^
>
> There is no "-v for verbose" option to mkswap, therefore it
> is probably being taken as "-v0" and erasing the previous "-v1".
>
> The user interface implications are left as an exercise for
> the reader...
>
> --
> Daniel Taylor
> dante at plethora.net
>
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