Possible solution to random crashes

[Dan Ritter]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 06:32:14PM -0400, Don Levey wrote:
> 
> Sep 22 17:38:57 dauphin kernel: Read-error on swap-device (8:16:239638369)
> Sep 22 17:38:57 dauphin kernel: ata1.01: error: { IDNF }
> Sep 22 17:38:57 dauphin kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector
> 239638313
> 
> 1) run 'swapoff'
> 2) run 'fdisk' to resize /dev/sda5
> 3) create swap partition on remainder of sda5
> 4) edit /etc/fstab to change the swap device from sdb5 to sda6

4.5 mkswap /dev/sda6 (or whatever the new partition is called)
> 5) run 'swapon -a' to (re)mount the new swap partition
> 6) resume normal operation

-dsr-

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