Re: Big Swap...

From: Robert Dinse (nanook@eskimo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 13:03:08 EST


On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>
> Grab recent util-linux, say 2.9w has it for sure.
> If you run RHL, look into 6.1 RPMS, if you run Debian, I'm pretty sure they
> have it packaged as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Jakub

     I grabbed 2.10d, installed the disk-utils portion and the swapon program.
Didn't do a full install because it would hose other aspects of my userland
environment.

     Now I can't seem to create a swap partition that I can swapon at all.

     The swapon system call returns EINVAL; but it IS a block special device,
so I don't know what's wrong now. If I dd one of the old swap devices onto
the new device, then I CAN mount it would tells me it's something in the device
that mkswap wrote that it doesn't like, but it explodes even if I tell to use
the old -v0 version.

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