On 2 September 2015 at 10:26, Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
But even though the swap drive functions perfectly under Windows, Mageia won't mount it. It complains 'non-zero exit status 14' and say that the file system is unclean. But I've run all the checks under Windows and that thinks it is clean. So how can I persuade Mageia to use it again?
Which Windows version?
Newer versions of Windows (10 certainly, 8 also I think) do not "shut down" when you tell them to, but go into a form of suspend. This means that the filesystems aren't closed and won't work open correctly in Linux. If this is the issue then the way Windows shuts down can be configured (I forget how but can look it up if that's your problem).
As I understand it, this would only affect you on a shutdown, not a reboot from Windows. (Ie open Windows, then initiate a reboot from there and select Linux, it should be OK, but tell Windows to shut down then later restart and select Linux and you'll have this issue.)
Mark