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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swap areas lose their signatures after reboot
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:56:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050831185604.GF703@openzaurus.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050830142615.12910b57.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de>

Hi!

> 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?

swsusp plays with them... Are you using swsusp?
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-01 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-30 12:26 Christoph Pleger
2005-08-31 18:56 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-09-01 17:07   ` Christoph Pleger

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