How can I check the swap partition

[Martin J.Hepperle]

Somehow we have managed to get our swap partition mangled (I believe).
The symptom shows up when trying to compile a FORTRAN program with f77 -O
(Optimization) -- this results in a segmentation fault from f77pass1.  The
manual says, that one should use a lower degree of optimization if -O
fails because this option uses a lot of swap space.  We have been using
full optimization for years and this problem occured suddenly. Is there a
utility to check the swap partition (fsck wouldn"t do it because there is
no U*NX-filesystem on this partition.  I tried savecore to remove a core
dump if there were any, but this didn"t help.  How can I clear the swap
partition without reformatting the entire disk ?

Please help if you can...

Thanks, Martin.

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