restoring swap file from unaccessible state

guy_ripper · 11-29-2006, 01:15 PM

Hi Guys,

I have installed Fedora Core 5 to act as ldap server, it went out that hard drive was crashed. Fortunately, system and data was able restored it back with mondo restore. Now, my problem is on the swap drive or partition which is not anymore accessible. I checked it on fstab "LABEL=SWAP-sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0" and changed LABEL=SWAP-sda5 with /dev/sda5 but it wouldn't solve the problem.

Any idea how I could fix this one?

Thanks......

pljvaldez · 11-29-2006, 01:40 PM

Did you try reformatting the swap partition as swap space?

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mkswap.8.html

guy_ripper · 11-30-2006, 07:24 AM

Hi Pljvaldez,

Thanks for the prompt reply. To give you an idea, this is what happened...

1. Upon booting up the system, I got this error: "Unable to access resume device (LABEL=SWAP-sda5)
2. Startup of services are seems okay but, it wouldn't logged in any users at login prompt and no errors are displayed.

guy_ripper · 11-30-2006, 07:54 AM

Sorry, I forgot to mention that after I logged in, I just ended up back to the login page even a root password. I changed the root password by booting up with linux single option but it didn't go okay. I checked the home directory and users folder are in there. Any suggestions on this error, there might be an internal error that's why session could not start.