Yep... changed it to type 82.

That is a neat feature. Thanks.

Austin Godber wrote:

> You must not know about man -k yet.  Man -k will do a keyword search.
> 
> so if you do
> man -k swap
> 
> it will show you the man pages with swap in the summary line
> 
> here's an example output.
> 
> mkswap               (8)  - set up a Linux swap area
> swapoff [swapon]     (2)  - start/stop swapping to file/device
> swapoff [swapon]     (8)  - enable/disable devices and files for paging and
>                 swapping
> swapon               (2)  - start/stop swapping to file/device
> swapon               (8)  - enable/disable devices and files for paging and
>                 swapping
> 
> Check these guys out ...
> 
> Oh you probably have to change the filesystem type to linux swap also 
> (fdisk).
> 
> Austin
> 
> PS - This was supposed to send long ago ... but since no one has 
> mentioned the apropos option for man yet ...
> 
> Rob Wultsch wrote:
> 
>> I searched tfw and could not find much. What is command to initalize a 
>> swap partition to make it ready for use from the command line? I will 
>> happily read tfm if I knew which one to read...
>>
>> Thanks
> 
> 
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