Just made swapfile on ext HD but swapon permission errors.

[yazyazoo]

I created a swapfile.img on my external hard drive. When I go to the swapon /media/movies2/swapfile.img I get a error of insecure permissions. It needs 0777 or 0600.

I tried chmod -R 777 /media/movies2/swapfile.img and it made no difference.

I used these commands to make my swap. Are any of them wrong?

dd if=/dev/zero of=media/movies2/swapfile.img bs=1M count=1024
mkswap /media/movies2/swapfile.img
swapon /media/movies2/swapfile.img

[hydro]

insecure permissions 0777, 0600 suggested means permissions are set to 777, but should be set to 600.

[moonman]

It's a warning, NOT an error. You can still use swap.

[yazyazoo]

So when I use that swapon command even though it gives me that output it is working?

[hydro]

Yes, you can check enabled swap using swapon -s oder cat /proc/swaps. Is there any reason why you don't want to set recommended 600 permissions?