Hello,

Yesterday, our linux fileserver crashed. It provides additional
space (30Gb) to our sun workstation via nfs which only has 8gb of drive space.

My problem is this: i was able to fix one of the partition which had inconsistency problem. But the swap space seems to have a problem. I does not mount. During bootup it says:

swapon: /dev/hdc1:invalid arguement

How do i fix this?

The system seems to work fine without the swap space. but i want to fix it, i'm afraid it might cause problems in the future.

btw: our linux server consists of
AMD K6 233Mhz
128Mb RAM
1Gb IDE Hard disk (this is where linux resides)
30Gb IDE Hard disk (our workspace and also where swap is located)
8Gb Scsi Drive (common space shared via samba)
3C905B-TX NIC

your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Swap is not real filesystem, in fact. In your situation, I'd delete the swap partition and create a new one (use fdisk, parted or similar utility).

I'd think in the first place the problem was the swap. It slows things down. And if the puter can't keep up, it crashes.

Remove swap asap. 128MB is more than enough for a server unless you play Unreal, open KDE, run Mozilla, download 4 ISO's in 4 diff. proggies, etc.

Hello again, and thanks for replying.

I think i'll remove the swap space.
I'm still quite new to this, is the procedure below correct?

1. from boot: type linux -s
2. unmount partitions
3. run fdisk /dev/hdc
4. remove swap space from fdisk, remove from /etc/fstab
5. reboot

Also just today, the server says that

ext2-fs error (device ide1(22,5)):ext2_read dir : bad entry in directory # 97537: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=144 inode= 97544 rec-len=0, name_len=0

ext2-fs error (device ide1(22,5)): directory # 97537 contains a hole at offset 1024

what does this mean? what do i do? do i have a major problem here? please help.

thanks in advance.