Hey, long story, short sequence of commands: $ mkfs.vfat -n maybefat /dev/sdb1 $ mkfs.vfat 2.11 (12 Mar 2005) $ mkswap -L maybeswap /dev/sdb1 Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 14380 KiB $ blkid /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="maybefat" UUID="491C-C1E8" TYPE="vfat" $ mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt $ umount /mnt $ swapon /dev/sdb1 $ swapoff /dev/sdb1 $ mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt $ umount /mnt You can see, you can save a lot of space by sharing you data and swap space, you can do both on the same partition. :) No need to explain what auto-detection/mounting/activation can do with your data in such cases. I guess, it's time now for mkswap, to wipe out old signatures. We tried this with a former maintainer of util-linux, but he claimed: that was a "feature". Thanks, Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
