6 Jul
2010
6 Jul
'10
2:25 p.m.
At Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:41:06 +0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
I tried to create some swap files in /dev directory for my desktop. the dd and mkswap were ok. but when I try to swapon it, i get this:
# swapon /dev/myswap swapon: /dev/myswap: Invalid argument
but when I mv the file to some other directory like /mnt or /, the swapon works.
could sb. tell me why?
/dev is mounted from a *ramdisk* -- swapping to a RAM disk makes really no sense.
With a modern (eg 2.6 kernel w/udev), /dev is created fresh at boot time and only contains device node files, generally created on-the-fly by udevd.
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