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Re: FW: Partitioning problem!!



Vipul Mathur wrote:

> I hope you are not trying to mount a Linux native partition as /swap. This wont
> work as swap. Make it a 'Linux swap' type partiton. The last one should also be
> / and NOT /root !!


Just setting partition type to 82 wont help you will have to run mkswap
and it would be better if you zero out the complete partition using dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda??




Mithun