Jay, Many thanks, Jay, I located the offending entry in /etc/fsab and edited it out. On reboot, the item did not display. Regards. John Lowell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Turner" <jkt@redhat.com> To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 3:10 PM Subject: Re: Swapon, Schmapon > 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 > > -- > --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- * > Jay Turner, QA Manager jkt@redhat.com Red Hat, Inc. > > No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; > a single experiment can prove me wrong. -- Albert Einstein > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
