l29ah-home ~ ∞ fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf1aea2ac Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 63 9472064 4736001 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT l29ah-home ~ ∞ mkswap /dev/sdb1 Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 4735996 KiB no label, UUID=919dc50d-c722-492b-85fd-f88fa25bd522 l29ah-home ~ ∞ swapon /dev/sdb1 l29ah-home ~ ∞