Re: Swapon, Schmapon

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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:49:41PM -0500, John Lowell wrote:
> I've just installed Red Hat 8.0 on a new drive and in the initial scrolling after booting reports an attempt to turn on a swap file that doesn't exist, which it so notes:
> 
> swapon /dev/sdc5          no such device         [FAILED]
> 
> Clearly this item is not needed and should be edited out of the file that runs at this time. Can you tell me which file to look for?

Check your /etc/fstab file and see if any partitions in there are
identified as being of type swap.  If so, just delete that line from the
file and save it.

- jkt

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