SWAP formatting is not working

[ispyisail]

SWAP formatting is not working

Gargoyle 1.5.4
TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v1-1.8

I was going to add some screen shots but it appears that you can't do that in this section?

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root@Gargoyle:~# mkswap /dev/sda2
mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40kB
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] [-L label] /dev/name [blocks]
root@Gargoyle:~#

Can somebody else confirm this fault

[hnl_dk]

SWAP formatting is not working

Gargoyle 1.5.4
TP-Link TL-WR1043ND v1-1.8

I was going to add some screen shots but it appears that you can't do that in this section?

that is because this is the news section
Have you not already made a wiki document?

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root@Gargoyle:~# mkswap /dev/sda2
mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40kB
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] [-L label] /dev/name [blocks]
root@Gargoyle:~#

Can somebody else confirm this fault

Have you remembered to make the partition before trying to enable the swap area on /dev/sda2 ?

[ispyisail]

that is because this is the news section
Have you not already made a wiki document?

point noted, sorry

I can't even now move my own post

I could of cause double post .......................

[hnl_dk]

that is because this is the news section
Have you not already made a wiki document?

point noted, sorry

I can't even now move my own post

I could of cause double post .......................

I had first thought that you wanted to show how you can setup SWAP, did first not get that you wanted to post a bug report.

I have now split the posts from the thread. Now you are able to post images.

[ispyisail]

Format drive 50/50

format1.png (24.04 KiB) Viewed 13084 times

Format complete

format2.png (6.3 KiB) Viewed 13084 times

see no change to the drive

format3.png (22.99 KiB) Viewed 13084 times

Can anybody confirm this result?

[ispyisail]

point noted, sorry

I can't even now move my own post

I could of cause double post .......................

I need more sleep, I should have moved this myself

sorry again

[hnl_dk]

I just tested it on my AP and it is working fine here.
try to unmount the partition and try again.
reboot the system after you have created the partitions.

[ispyisail]

try to unmount the partition and try again.

done

reboot the system after you have created the partitions.

Done

still the same results

what size was your drive?

what was your drive pre formatted with?

can you show the same screen shots with your results?

[hnl_dk]

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still the same results

what size was your drive?

what was your drive pre formatted with?

can you show the same screen shots with your results?

It is a 2GB Kingston flash drive... I think that I had a FAT32 partition on it before trying this.

I can do it again... one moment...

[hnl_dk]

Setting up the partitions.

gargoyle_format1.png (25.62 KiB) Viewed 13078 times

have setup a share.

gargoyle_format2.png (41.09 KiB) Viewed 13078 times

But after doing this again and rebooting the system SWAP was not working.

I discovered that the SWAP area is not setup (mkswap), when the swap partition is setup (image one, in gargoyle called "format"). The SWAP area is first setup (mkswap) when you save the "shared disk" (look at image two).