HOW TO: Prepare a Partition to be Swap
If you’re about to install a Linux distro, then the install program will likely take care of this for you. If you’ve changed file systems under other circumstances, however, you may need to manually prepare a partition to be used as swap.
The command to do so is simply mkswap
mkswap /dev/hda2
Mkswap will not confirm anything with you before going ahead and making the file system, so be sure you’ve specified the right partition!
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