swap partition not being mounted

jclark00001 · 02-14-2003, 11:56 PM

when i boot up into linux and its running through all the processes, it says ok to everything except when it tries to mount my swap partition it says failed, i just reinstalled windows on my windows partition and fixed the mbr so grub works again, but i think windows took over my swap partition when it reinstalled, because now i have an E: drive on my windows partition with an unrecognized format, is there a way i can get my linux partition to take back the swap partition that the evil windows stole from it?

Palin · 02-15-2003, 12:27 AM

can you post your fstab so we can look it over?

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 01:13 AM

Heres my fstab:

LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda4 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0

thanks in advance

Palin · 02-15-2003, 01:18 AM

perhaps this

/dev/hda4 swap swap sw 0 0

note: after reading this i decided to fix mine it was doing the same thing thats what mine looks like now and its working for me.

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 01:25 AM

hmm well i think my swap is hda1 but when i checked it by doing fdisk -l it says its fat16, is that right?

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 01:26 AM

hda4 is my windows partition, i mounted it so i could access some of my files on it, im having xp problems heh

Palin · 02-15-2003, 01:29 AM

did you try switch hda4 with 1 in your fstab
so it read /dev/hda1 swap swap sw 0 0

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 01:39 AM

alright i tried that, and now while its booting it says "warning: bad format on line 9 of fstab"

Palin · 02-15-2003, 01:43 AM

ok if you are shure that is/was your swap partition then you probably want to run
mkswap /dev/hda1

I would mount the partion first to see whats on it to make sure
incase you needed it

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/<mount point> assuming its a FAT partition.

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 01:55 AM

hmm i just tried to mount it and it said wrong fs type, i remmeber i got the same error message when i tried mounting my windows partition, but i fixed that by running /sbin/modprobe ntfs. i tried to run /sbin/modprobe vfat, but that didnt work is there some other command i should run?

Palin · 02-15-2003, 02:07 AM

After looking through the modules on my redhat partition I think its fat
not really sure on this one I'm on Gentoo at the moment.

MasterC · 02-15-2003, 02:13 AM

Can you post up fdisk -l (FDISK -L) as root? This might help us to see where that swap partition actually is. Then we won't have to worry about you wiping out your valuable information

Cool

jclark00001 · 02-15-2003, 02:20 AM

ok heres my fdisk -l:
[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 64 514048+ 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 * 65 893 6658911 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 894 897 32098+ ce Unknown
/dev/hda4 898 9732 70967137+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
[root@localhost root]#

Palin · 02-15-2003, 02:25 AM

welp if your swap partition is ~512meg then hda1 looks like its the one
not really sure what the 32meg one is

MasterC · 02-15-2003, 02:25 AM

Do you remember how big your swap partition was?