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#146
After running cloned system from internal SD for some time I decided to retry the process and see if I could get swap to work automatically with the latest (?) version. (Is there a reason why console-tools still isn't available directly from penguinbait.com?)

First I went to "pbeasy" and ran "partition", getting the "Type in the size in MB for the FAT partition: This is the amount of Disk to be assigned to the windows filesystem on the tablet." message twice. I gave it first 128 (what is this for and how much is really needed for this "windows" FAT partition?) and second time 256 (supposedly for swap). This process only lasted only maybe 10 seconds!

After reboot I re-ran "pbeasy" and ran "cloning" and was only asked about the bootmenu timeout (6 secs). As earlier at this stage the process churned a couple of minutes, mostly at 99%, before again finishing with "can't open /rval/tmp" error.

Upon second reboot I selected the internal SD from bootmenu and system booted a bit quicker than from built-in flash... but I still got senor Torvalds' vocalizing.

So I'm back to where I started from...

Excitedly I try "free" but it still gives blank for swap...

cat /proc/partitions shows that at least the partition is there:

1997312 mmcblk0
131071 mmcblk0p1
1603584 mmcblk0p2
262144 mmcblk0p3 <-----

Running "swapon /dev/mmcblk0p3" as root does enable it, until next shutdown/reboot I suppose.