how to recover the "swap"

b0nd · 01-31-2005, 05:01 AM

Hello all,
i have red hat 8 and windows XP on my system.
XP got currupted.........

During reinstallation unfortunately i formatted the swap
partition.....

its space is still there.......

now i don't know whether there is some way of making it swap againg without
reinstalling the linux......( i know the procedure of recovering the bootloader).

regards
ruudra

scuzzman · 01-31-2005, 05:30 AM

Try repartitionin that space

Code:

man cfdisk

masand · 01-31-2005, 05:44 AM

hi there

for that

first

fdisk /dev/hda

then see that partiton that u want to make swap
then toggle that partition ID to 82 using't'

and then reboot
then

mkswap /dev/hda7

where hda7 is ur swap partition and then

swapon /dev/hda7

and then add an entry for that in ur /etc/fstab

regards