Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 27 Oct 2002 13:50:21 +0100 | | From | Alex Riesen <> | | Subject | Re: Swap doesn't work |
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:07:44PM +0100, Vladim?r T?ebick? wrote: > > Wow. Any of the errors above prevents swap partition from being used. > > How did you manage to see anything in /proc/swaps? > > I suggest you do: > > swapoff /dev/hda6 > > badblocks /dev/hda6 > Badblocks finds each time ONE bad block at the end of the partition no > matter where I create it or how large the partition is. Syslog shows this > message: > Oct 27 10:57:45 shunka kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device > Oct 27 10:57:45 shunka kernel: 03:06: rw=0, want=594376, limit=594373
That's not a badblock. That's an kernel IDE bug. Andre Hedrick and Alan Cox will love to see this.
> > Look for "SWAP-SPACE" (old swap) or "SWAPSPACE2" (the new one). > > Just to make sure you've initialized the partition properly. > > Than turn it on: swapon /dev/hda6; tail /var/log/syslog > where should I try to find it? ("SWAP-SPACE" | "SWAPSPACE2")
At the beginning. The searching for it doesn't make sense now.
> What mean the problems I (only) once noticed about the signature?
Nothing special. You just have something broken in a particularly unpredictable way.
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