New partition is mistakenly assumed to be swap space.

duns0014 · 12-16-2006, 09:07 PM

I had some swap that I wanted to turn into a real partition, to store stuff. I used fdisk to change the type to linux (83 I believe). But even after reboot, my system still thought it was swap. Trying to mount it gave the error that it appeared to be swap, although fdisk called it linux. So I deleted the partition and then made a new one in the same place, with type linux. Same problem. Any ideas?

syg00 · 12-16-2006, 09:31 PM

You need to build a filesystem on the partition - think of it like the format command in 'doze. Try "man mkfs" for some background.

2damncommon · 12-16-2006, 10:08 PM

The partition is still listed as swap in /etc/fstab?

duns0014 · 12-16-2006, 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

You need to build a filesystem on the partition - think of it like the format command in 'doze. Try "man mkfs" for some background.

That worked, thanks. Buy why do you have to do this after you create it with fdisk? I don't remember doing this before.

syg00 · 12-16-2006, 11:50 PM

Changing the "type" does nothing to the underlie-ing filesystem (and/or data).
After "playing" with partitions, you should always re-make the filesystem. Restoring a previously saved backup image would be the only situation not to that I can (quickly) think of.