I am trying to add a swap file to my unRAID box and it is failing on the 'swapon /swapfile' portion - just hangs.... but doesn't seem to affect the system, just never adds the swap space and never releases the shell again.

 

Here is what I'm doing:

 

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sparedisk/swapfile bs=1024 count=2097152

> mkswap /mnt/sparedisk/swapfile

> swapon -v /mnt/sparedisk/swapfile

all I get on the shell is:

 

swapon on swapfile

swapon: warning: /mnt/usb/swapfile has insecure permissions 0755, 0600 suggested

 

and it will sit there 'forever' -> 30+min

 

Any ideas, suggestions, success stories?

 

Thanks!

 

Solved my own problem... it was due to the file permissions... not sure why the warning and not an error where it would kick back to the prompt... but problem solved.

 

Perhaps this post will help others in the future