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On 2020-03-04 10:10, Michael wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 08:09:45 GMT n952162 wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I have 3 swap devices and files. At boot, it seems indeterminate which |
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>> ones get "mounted" (as swap areas). |
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>> Does anyone have an idea why they're not all mounted? |
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>> Here are the swap lines from my fstab: |
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>> #LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 |
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>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_DT01ACA300_xxxxxxxx-part1 none swap |
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>> sw,pri=10 0 0 |
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>> /swap none swap sw,pri=5 0 0 |
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>> /lcl/WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-yyyyyyyyyy/1/swap none swap |
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>> sw,pri=1 0 0 |
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> The second entry is missing the device you intend to mount. |
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> When you list the first and third devices do you see anything wrong with them? |
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> When you try to enable them manually with 'swapon -v' what do you get? |
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> PS. If any of these swap block devices are actually files within a fs make |
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> sure you first fill them up with dd, because files with holes in them could |
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> fail to be enabled. Also some fs (btrfs?) are not good candidates for having |
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> swap files on them, if they move data around with cow. |
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The second and third entries are files, created with dd(1), from |
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/dev/zeros, as shown on the mkswap(8) man page. No word in |
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/var/log/messages for non-mounted swaps. |
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