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Re: [Xen-devel] mkswap in guests

To: Adam Heath <doogie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] mkswap in guests
From: Jan Kundrát <jan.kundrat@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:49:03 +0100
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Adam Heath wrote:
kaffe:/home/doogie# mkswap /dev/hda
mkswap: Will not try to make swapdevice on '%s'

Is this supposed to work?  See my previous email as for the mapping.

Probably the `mkswap` is confused as you're telling it to use "entire disk", not only partition. `mkswap -f` could help you, or just export it as /dev/hda1.

-jkt

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