From 9ce6d7a083ead3028d86bcc69dc34682dd587448 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 19:46:37 +0000
Subject: added note to run mkswap

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2216 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter03/creatingfs.xml | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'chapter03')

diff --git a/chapter03/creatingfs.xml b/chapter03/creatingfs.xml
index d78db47db..269802ea9 100644
--- a/chapter03/creatingfs.xml
+++ b/chapter03/creatingfs.xml
@@ -16,5 +16,14 @@ url="http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org/view/cvs/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</p
 <para>Replace <filename>xxx</filename> with the name of the LFS partition
 (something like <filename>hda5</filename>).</para>
 
+<para>If you created a (new) swap partition you need to initialize it as a
+swap partition too (also known as formatting, like you did above with
+<userinput>mke2fs</userinput>) by running:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>mkswap /dev/yyy</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Replace <filename>yyy</filename> with the name of the swap
+partition.</para>
+
 </sect1>
 
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