Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 12 May 2001 16:25:01 -0700 | From | Matthew Dharm <> | Subject | Re: mount /dev/hdb2 /usr; swapon /dev/hdb2 keeps flooding |
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I was under the impression that you need to call swapon on swap partitions, and not on mounted filesystems.
Matt
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 01:00:39AM +0200, BERECZ Szabolcs wrote: > Hi! > > root@kama3:/home/szabi# cat /proc/mounts > ... > /dev/hdb2 /usr ext2 rw 0 0 > ... > root@kama3:/home/szabi# swapon /dev/hdb2 > set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev ide0(3,66), block 2, from c0126b48 > set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev ide0(3,66), block 3, from c0126b48 > set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev ide0(3,66), block 4, from c0126b48 > set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev ide0(3,66), block 5, from c0126b48 > set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev ide0(3,66), block 6, from c0126b48 > set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev ide0(3,66), block 7, from c0126b48 > set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev ide0(3,66), block 8, from c0126b48 > set_blocksize: b_count 1, dev ide0(3,66), block 1, from c0126b48 > Unable to find swap-space signature > swapon: /dev/hdb2: Invalid argument > root@kama3:/home/szabi# > > and then set_blocksize keeps flooding the console, not continuously, > but 20-40 lines at a time, then it sleeps a bit, sometimes half a > minute (caused by kupdated?) > > root@kama3:/home/szabi# mount -o remount,ro /usr > ll_rw_block: device 03:42: only 4096-char blocks implemented (1024) > root@kama3:/home/szabi# > > once I got these: > ll_rw_block: device 03:42: only 4096-char blocks implemented (1024) > EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,66)): ext2_write_inode: unable to read inode block > - inode=2084, block=8207 > ll_rw_block: device 03:42: only 4096-char blocks implemented (1024) > EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,66)): ext2_write_inode: unable to read inode block > - inode=6328, block=24609 > ... > > szabi@kama3:/hdc1/kernel/linux-2.4.4-ac6# gdb vmlinux > (gdb) disas 0xc0126b48 > ... > 0xc0126b43 <sys_swapon+371>: call 0xc012bcc0 <set_blocksize> > 0xc0126b48 <sys_swapon+376>: mov 0xe8(%edi),%edi > 0xc0126b4e <sys_swapon+382>: mov %edi,0xffffffd0(%ebp) > ... > > I tried it on several partitions, and it worked on /dev/hdc, > and did not work on /dev/hdb > on /dev/hdb all the filesystems are ext2 > on /dev/hdc one fs is a new, clean ext2, the others are reiserfs > > so I really don't know what's the problem. > > do you need any other information? > > Bye, > Szabi > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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