Provided by: util-linux_2.16-1ubuntu5_i386 mkswap - set up a
Linux swap area mkswap [-c] [-f] [-p PSZ] [-L label] [-U uuid]
device [size] mkswap sets up a Linux swap area on a device or in
a file. The device argument will usually be a disk partition
(something like /dev/sdb7) but can also be a file. The Linux
kernel does not look at partition Id’s, but many installation
scripts will assume that partitions of hex type 82 (LINUX_SWAP)
are meant to be swap partitions. (Warning: Solaris also uses
this type. Be careful not to kill your The size parameter is
superfluous but retained for backwards compatibility. (It
specifies the desired size of the swap area in 1024-byte blocks.
mkswap will use the entire partition or file if it is omitted.
Specifying it is unwise - a typo may destroy your disk.) The PSZ
parameter specifies the page size to use. It is almost always
unnecessary (even unwise) to specify it, but certain old libc
versions lie about the page size, so it is possible that mkswap
gets it wrong. The symptom