From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932108AbVH3M0T (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:26:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932119AbVH3M0T (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:26:19 -0400 Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de ([129.217.4.42]:56247 "EHLO waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932108AbVH3M0T (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:26:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:26:15 +0200 From: Christoph Pleger To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Swap areas lose their signatures after reboot Message-Id: <20050830142615.12910b57.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de> Organization: Universitaet Dortmund X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-sun-solaris2.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, We have a machine with much RAM and 4 SCSI disks. We want to have 8 GB of Swap space. So I partitioned the hard disks with one swap partition of 2GB on every disk. But only the swap partition of the first disk can be used after a reboot; the other three swap partitions lose their swap signature. When I call "swapon -a" manually, it says "Invalid argument" for these three partitions. After executing "mkswap" on them, "swapon -a" works fine. But I have to call "mkswap" after every reboot. What happens with the swap signatures during reboot? Regards Christoph