What's going on with my Linux Swap?

[dave at tokyocomedy.com (Dave Gutteridge)]

>mkswap /dev/hdb2
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I didn't even get to the second command you mentioned:
[root@localhost ~]# mkswap /dev/hdb2
mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40kB
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] /dev/name [blocks]

That's weird. I thought my swap partition was 747022+ blocks, which, not 
knowing what a block is, sounds like a lot more than 40kB.

>swapon /dev/hdb2
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>And add this to your /etc/fstab: 
>  /dev/hdb2    swap    swap    defaults   0 0
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I did that. I noticed in my fstab file that there is also this:
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                   swap    defaults        0 0
... That's not going to cause any conflicts or anything, is it?

>P.S.  I hope /dev/hdb2 isn't a slave ATA device?  Or is it an SATA
>device?
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I don't know. /dev/hdb2 is another partition on the same hard drive that 
my Linux installation is on. Does that answer the question? Are you 
hoping it's not a slave because if it is a slave, my computer will 
explode sending fiery shrapnel of death directly into my brain?

Dave