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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Recovering Swap Partition
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In the last episode (Sep 03), Ron Tarrant said:
> After a random power outage, my FreeBSD 6.1 box failed to reboot
> because the swap partition is toast. The disklabel looks to be
> intact. I've been researching all afternoon trying to find out how to
> recover the swap with something like newfs, but I haven't found any
> examples of how to do it, only how to create the swap during a system
> installation.
> 
> Can anyone tell me which tool to use and show me either an example or
> point me in the direction of more information?

What error are you getting?  Swap doesn't need to be formatted; it just
has to exist if enabled.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com