swap file on samsung peach?

[GreenBackbone]

I'm trying to enable a swap file on my samsung peach archlinux arm instalation.. but get the following error after trying 'swapon /swapfile' :
$ sudo swapon -v /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
swapon: /swapfile: found swap signature: version 1d, page-size 4, same byte order
swapon: /swapfile: pagesize=4096, swapsize=1073741824, devsize=1073741824
swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument

my usb/mmc boot was disabled after installing arch so i cant create a partition for swap unless i go back to chromeos and reinstall.. is that my only option?

[syg00]

How did you create the swapfile - note the caveats in the manpage(s).
I'd just recreate the file using dd to make sure the file has no holes, then mkswap again.

[GreenBackbone]

Thankyou for your answer
originaly i created the file with fallocate
and i just tried again with dd
got the same error:


[rastamanking@GreenBranch ~]$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 51.5727 s, 20.8 MB/s
[rastamanking@GreenBranch ~]$ sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
[rastamanking@GreenBranch ~]$ sudo mkswap /swapfile
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1024 MiB (1073737728 bytes)
no label, UUID=af032c57-c882-4847-9083-a9eddcad02bc
[rastamanking@GreenBranch ~]$ sudo swapon -v /swapfile
swapon /swapfile
swapon: /swapfile: found swap signature: version 1d, page-size 4, same byte order
swapon: /swapfile: pagesize=4096, swapsize=1073741824, devsize=1073741824
swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument

[syg00]

What filesystem are you using ?.

[GreenBackbone]

my root file system is ext4, i don't have any other partitions aside from the kernel wich is unknown.
any ideas? i really dont want to re-install, but i will if its the only option i have,
this netbook needs the swap, after boot i only have 1.1G ram free out of 2G and im running xfce..
also, i have no idea if it will accept a swap partition or if it will return the same error...

[syg00]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'm')y root file system is ext4, i don't have any other partitions aside from the kernel wich is unknown.

[GreenBackbone]

here are the results, thank you for your help:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root ext4 15G 5.3G 8.4G 39% /
devtmpfs devtmpfs 1001M 0 1001M 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 1001M 0 1001M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 1001M 540K 1000M 1% /run
tmpfs tmpfs 1001M 0 1001M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs tmpfs 1001M 8.0K 1001M 1% /tmp
tmpfs tmpfs 201M 8.0K 201M 1% /run/user/1001')

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0rpmb
mmcblk0boot0
mmcblk0boot1
mmcblk0
├─mmcblk0p1
└─mmcblk0p2 ext4 38fc5ce4-7e0a-47e5-a3b6-39907d10013d /')

[Abzie]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sw ... e_creation

[GreenBackbone]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Abzie', 'h')ttps://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/swap#Swap_file_creation

[Abzie]

What's the output of:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'cat /proc/swaps')

And

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'dmesg | grep swap')