On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:54:12PM -0500, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> jludwig wrote:
> >On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:48, Steve Pyatt wrote:
> >
> >>>>>I'm running FC2 and have my swap setup on a separate drive. It was
> >>>>>formatted as a swap and everything looks good in /etc/fstab. However
> >>>>>every time I reboot I have to run a mkswap and swapon against it. Is
> >>>>>there any thoughts on this? Or is there anyway I can get that done on
> >>>>>boot?
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> >>>My fstab has this for swap. Is yours the same?
> >>
> >>>/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> >>
> >>Except mine is hda1
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> I'm late to this thread so I hope I'm not spewing nonsense.
Me to.
First what disk hardware. Is this SATA, IDE, SCSI....
Are you using logical volumes, hardware RAID, software RAID?
What does fdisk for each device tell us?
Example:
# - - - - - - - - -
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 58168 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1016 512032+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1017 31492 15359904 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 56138 58168 1023624 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 31493 56137 12421080 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 31493 56137 12421048+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sda: 32 MB, 32112640 bytes
4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 490 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 128 * 512 = 65536 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 489 31280 4 FAT16 <32M
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Is the machine dual or multiboot? If multiboot is the swap partition
used by the other OS (intentionally or unintentionally).
Do you use a mix of absolute device names and LABEL= lines in fstab (I
do). If so map each LABEL back to a physical device and check for
errors:
# findfs LABEL=/
/dev/hda2
Perhaps a label and another use conflict.
Is devlabel causing things to be mapped funny? see /etc/sysconfig/devlabel
caution RTFM on /sbin/devlabel.
Is the BIOS remapping devices. This is common for some multiboot
setups. Same is possible with grub.
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