fstab error in Core 4

UsrnameThatsNotInUse · 08-11-2005, 10:23 AM

I installed FC4 and everything went quite nice except for this. My swap partition doesnt work because fstab is not written correctly. Here is my fstab

Code:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/devpts             /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/shm                /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/proc               /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sys                /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=\uffff\uffff\u0796He\uffff#\uffffH&\uffff      `   swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/fd0                /media/floppy           auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,m
anaged 0 0
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrom            auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,m
anaged 0 0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder       auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,m
anaged 0 0

and here is $fdisk -l for that drive

Code:

/dev/hdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2              14        3837    30716280   83  Linux
/dev/hdb3            3838        3964     1020127+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Any ideas what should be in that line 8 or is it safe to edit it manually.

Simon_6162 · 08-11-2005, 06:35 PM

As the swap is not working anyway, editing it manually and messing up wont make any difference. I would comment that line out with a # and try the one below

/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0

jcliburn · 08-11-2005, 07:25 PM

This is a known bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=159087

Just edit fstab and replace the junked label with the correct /dev/hdb3 entry as Simon says. Then issue the following command to activate swap.

swapon -a

UsrnameThatsNotInUse · 08-12-2005, 02:27 AM

Thanks guys! I´ll try it.