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Re: ERROR: In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda1": Invalid argument
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: ERROR: In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda1": Invalid argument |
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Mon, 18 Apr 2016 10:02:55 +0200 |
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Thierry Micoud <address@hidden> skribis:
> ERROR: In procedure swapon: "/dev/sda1": Invalid argument
[...]
> and this is the relevent output of fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 232.9 GiB, 250000000000 bytes, 488281250 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0x659d198e
>
> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
> /dev/sda1 2048 8390655 8388608 4G 82 Linux swap /
> Solaris
According to swapon(2), this most likely means that /dev/sda1 does not
contain a valid swap signature.
If that is the case, it can be fixed with:
mkswap /dev/sda1
herd start swap-/dev/sda1
HTH!
Ludo’.