Having trouble with my swap file
I am not sure what I am doing wrong, I am trying to create a swap file
512 megs in size, what I've done so far is:
#dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile2 bs=1024 count=524288
then i allocated an area to be swapped
#mkswap /swapfile2
I activated it and everything was fine
#swapon /swapfile2
i rebooted linux and added the entry to etc/fstab file
but when I try to open it with vi
#vi /etc/fstab ( I appended the following line, but it will not open)
i cannot verify if the swap has activated
I just get an error message saying invalid media type reading drive ,
what am I doing wrong?
Thanks ahead of time
-D
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