On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 16:47 +0200, Joel Uckelman wrote: > I just switched my desktop FC5 system from using software RAID over regular > partitions to using software RAID over LVM; everything works fine, except > I can't enable my swap. > > On boot, I get the following messages: > > device-mapper: device 9:1 too small for target > device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed > device-mapper: error adding target to table > . > . > . > Unable to find swap-space signature > > My swap volume is listed like this in my /etc/fstab: > > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > If I try to format the swap volume, it tells me that it's too small: > > # mkswap /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 > mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40kB > > But 'lvm lvs' reports that's it's 1GB: > > LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-d- 1.00G > > I've tried deleting and recreating the swap volume: > > # lvm lvremove VolGroup00/LogVol01 > # lvm lvcreate -L 1024M -n LogVol01 VolGroup00 > device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument > Failed to activate new LV. > > What's going wrong here? > > -- Did you mkswap it? Gilboa
