hi, (thanks for your all your help ;-) Earlier I used swapon to enter an configured but not-swap device. Now top gives the error: top: panic: nswapmap goof I have since rebooted and the problem remains, the device is now suitable for swapping purposes (it would be nice though, if swapon would just accept any sort of file - temporary or long term), is there a way I could fix (nswapmap)? thanks,