swap partition wont work
 

hi
i have on my system two swap partitions (my main memory is 2 gigs and ive read its advisable to have 2 swap partitions of 1 gig in this case):

cfdisk 2.12r

Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 160041885696 bytes, 160.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 19457

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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hda1 Boot Primary NTFS [] 143004.72
hda5 Logical W95 FAT32 9500.20
hda6 Logical Linux ReiserFS 5379.34
hda7 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 1077.52
hda8 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 1077.52







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My /etc/fstab looks like the following:

root@KanotixBox:/home/sancho# more /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
/dev/hda6 / reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hda5 /mnt/fat vfat defaults 0 2
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda8 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

When I bootup, I get some kind of an error message referring to a failed swap mount:

root@KanotixBox:/home/sancho# dmesg | grep swap
Unable to find swap-space signature
Adding 1052216k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1052216k
Unable to find swap-space signature
Adding 1052216k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-2 extents:1 across:1052216k
Unable to find swap-space signature
Unable to find swap-space signature
Adding 1052216k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-3 extents:1 across:1052216k
Unable to find swap-space signature

And truly, when I try to mount my swap partitions I get the following:

root@KanotixBox:/home/sancho# swapoff /dev/hda8
root@KanotixBox:/home/sancho# swapon /dev/hda8
root@KanotixBox:/home/sancho# swapoff /dev/hda7
swapoff: /dev/hda7: Invalid argument

Anybody able to see what's the problem here?

Thanx,

Martin

Is it formated as swap? If not, try mkswap.