Saturday, February 23, 2019

partitioning - swapon: /dev/sdb1: swapon failed: Invalid argument

I am unable to mount a swap partition



Terminal code:




Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdb1 2048 7831551 3914752 82 Linux swap / Solaris
root@chrubuntu:/home/user# swapon -v /dev/sdb1
swapon on /dev/sdb1
swapon: /dev/sdb1: found swap signature: version 1, page-size 4, same byte order
swapon: /dev/sdb1: pagesize=4096, swapsize=4008706048, devsize=4008706048
swapon: /dev/sdb1: swapon failed: Invalid argument
root@chrubuntu:/home/user#


Can someone help?




EDIT:



Output of sudo blkid




/dev/sda1: UUID="63dbf7c2-877c-4a5e-8281-8be811c60056" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="ROOT-A" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="2678643c-7148-427e-99b9-3af143dedcf3" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda7: UUID="38794eb2-bdc4-4f2a-97fd-0100fa5600a0" TYPE="ext4"

/dev/sda8: LABEL="OEM" UUID="e39a733b-31fd-48df-8645-0e64e14d3f10" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda12: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="7B3E-EAE9" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="a4637af0-b82f-4247-ace4-c1621d2fdb7a" TYPE="swap"

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