Creating Linux-Swap Partition

[TotalPenguin]

I am trying to create a swap partition and it's not letting me.. I can create an ext2 etc.. but not swap partitions. It's giving me this error details:

GParted 0.3.3

 Libparted 1.8.8

 
Create Primary Partition #1 (linux-swap, 1004.06 MiB) on /dev/sda  00:01    ( ERROR ) 
      
   create empty partition  00:00    ( SUCCES ) 
      
  path: /dev/sda1
start: 63
end: 2040254
size: 2040192 (996.19 MiB) 
   set partitiontype on /dev/sda1  00:01    ( SUCCES ) 
      
  new partitiontype: linux-swap 
   create new linux-swap filesystem  00:00    ( ERROR ) 
      
  mkswap /dev/sda1 
      
  /dev/sda1: Device or resource busy
 

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And in Konsole it's showing

Can't have a partition outside the disk!

[Tor]

The first partition, sda1, is usually your Linux or Windows partition. Is this a secondary HD?

[TotalPenguin]

No, sda1 is empty right now. I had the windows recovery partition, but as I have a recovery DVD, I just deleted that partition, now I have like 1GB with no use.. so, my Sabayon installation doesn't have a swap partition and it's running quite slow... So I thought, why not using sda1 as a linux-swap partition?


But it won't let me!!

[X03]

You have to format it as a swap partition first. Did you do that?

[TotalPenguin]

Yes, that low is of GParted, when I try to format it to a swap partition it does not.. shows an error.

[PenguinLover]

I find GParted very unstable! It crashes nearly after every action that it does.