Yep... changed it to type 82.
That is a neat feature. Thanks.
Austin Godber wrote:
> You must not know about man -k yet. Man -k will do a keyword search.
>
> so if you do
> man -k swap
>
> it will show you the man pages with swap in the summary line
>
> here's an example output.
>
> mkswap (8) - set up a Linux swap area
> swapoff [swapon] (2) - start/stop swapping to file/device
> swapoff [swapon] (8) - enable/disable devices and files for paging and
> swapping
> swapon (2) - start/stop swapping to file/device
> swapon (8) - enable/disable devices and files for paging and
> swapping
>
> Check these guys out ...
>
> Oh you probably have to change the filesystem type to linux swap also
> (fdisk).
>
> Austin
>
> PS - This was supposed to send long ago ... but since no one has
> mentioned the apropos option for man yet ...
>
> Rob Wultsch wrote:
>
>> I searched tfw and could not find much. What is command to initalize a
>> swap partition to make it ready for use from the command line? I will
>> happily read tfm if I knew which one to read...
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
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