Disk > Wizard fails to create or activate swap partition on 3TB WD disk about alt-f

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> I don't remember exactly, something along the lines of trying to initialize 
partitions

Without knowing exactly where it fails it is impossible to fix it.
As nobody else complained...

From your description, the partitioning succeeds, but the swap was not created 
and activated

For GPT, you could get errors like:

GPT partitioning disk ...
Error creating swap:
Error creating first partition
Error creating second partition

Creating and activating swap in disk
some mkswap error
some swapon error

Not knowing which one happened and what the error was makes it impossible to 
fix.

The following errors are a consequence of that one.

> So I executed "mkswap /dev/sda1" and then "swapon /dev/sda1"

Those are the commands executed by the wizard.

Perhaps you could try to replicate the bug, dealing only with the swap 
partition, not the data partition?
The following are the commands executed by the wizard regarding creating and 
activating swap, if you could try then after stopping running services and 
turning swap off could help diagnose the problem:

Assuming that the disk device is 'sda' and the swap partition is the first one, 
start by turning off swap:

swapoff /dev/sda1

then copy/paste the following commands:

i=/dev/sda
echo "Creating and activating swap in disk $(basename $i)..."
res="$(mkswap ${i}1 2>&1)"
if test $? != 0; then
    echo "mkswap error: $res"
else
    res="$(swapon -p 1 ${i}1 2>&1)"
    if test $? != 0; then
        echo "swapon error: $res"
    else
        echo " done."
    fi
fi

What is printed?

Anyway, this should be reported in sourceforge, 
https://sourceforge.net/p/alt-f/_list/tickets, as the previous issue says

Thanks

Original comment by [email protected] on 2 Jun 2013 at 4:44

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Re-created the ticket in Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/p/alt-f/tickets/1/

You might want to consider something like updating the "Issues" link on the 
home page to go to the Sourceforge issue tracker though if you want people to 
post in the right place straight away ;)

++Alex

Original comment by [email protected] on 3 Jun 2013 at 9:42

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moved to sourceforge
Thanks

Original comment by [email protected] on 4 Jun 2013 at 2:09

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