On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:14:19AM -0400, John Kennedy wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 06:41:06PM +0800, Tang Jianwei 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? > > > > Well, /dev is *not* a good place for anything but device files. > > > > > > /dev is not a real directory for data files. > > <snip> > > Um, er, what do you mean about it not being a "real" directory? > > > > mark > > > > > I would say he means "real" as exists on a hard drive like /home of /var as > opposed to "virtual" as exists in RAM like /proc. > John Yup. ////jerry > -- > John Kennedy > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos