On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:17:02AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 8/1/05, Peter Teuben <teuben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I had reported on a similar problem, and finally paid attention to the > > > output of "df" which showed 0 usage of swap. In fact, total was 0 too, > > > i.e. i had no swap despite that it was installed with swap. Turned > > > out the /etc/fstab file had a rather curious line in it: > > > > > > LABEL= swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > > > > where the = sign was followed by 15 0xAA characters (that dind't print > > > in the cut&paste above)!! So, no wonder. I suspect it is something in > > > the installed that is broken, since i install redhat systems fairly > > > regularly, or i overlooked a new(?) requirement that partitions be > > > labeled. > > > > This is not true. Partitions may be, but do not have to be labeled. good. But my real point is that i think i then ran into an installation bug. It will be hard to reproduce though (well, it being a lot of work on a production machine for me). But i'll be a good citizen and search for it on bugzilla and file a "bug". peter
