[jrockway]

Heh, I also destroyed my Linux system at about that age. "swapon /dev/hda". Oops.

[kondor6c]

Wouldn't you need to initialize the partition with 'mkswap'?

[jrockway]

Apparently not. Try it :)

[kondor6c]

sorry for the old post, but I did try it and it refuses to activate swap on a non-swap enabled device. Now I assume that you had done that a while back (judging from the hda device) so there are probably now some extra safety checks (good thing too!) :-D well I'm sorry for your loss long ago :-)

[root@localhost ~]# swapon /dev/sdb

swapon: /dev/sdb: read swap header failed: Invalid argument

*edited the formating