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Yes, everything mounts when I explicitly say swapon -a. No problems in |
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/var/log/messages. |
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Here's the output of swapon -sv: |
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# swapon -sv |
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Filename Type Size Used Priority |
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/swap file 6291452 0 5 |
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/dev/sdb1 partition 1099772 776 10 |
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/lcl/WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-yyyyyyyy/1/swap file 3071996 |
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0 1 |
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On 2020-03-04 10:43, Michael wrote: |
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> On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 09:24:31 GMT n952162 wrote: |
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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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>>>> |
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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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>>>> |
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>>>> Does anyone have an idea why they're not all mounted? |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Here are the swap lines from my fstab: |
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>>>> |
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>>>> #LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 |
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>>>> |
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>>>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_DT01ACA300_xxxxxxxx-part1 none swap |
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>>>> |
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>>>> sw,pri=10 0 0 |
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>>>> |
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>>>> /swap none swap sw,pri=5 0 0 |
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>>>> |
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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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>>> |
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>>> When you list the first and third devices do you see anything wrong with |
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>>> them? |
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>>> |
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>>> When you try to enable them manually with 'swapon -v' what do you get? |
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>>> |
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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 |
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>>> could |
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>>> fail to be enabled. Also some fs (btrfs?) are not good candidates for |
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>>> having 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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> I assume you have run something like this: |
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> |
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> dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=4096 count=xxxxxxxx |
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> mkswap -c -f -L moreswap /swap |
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> swapon -v -o pri=5 /swap |
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> |
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> When you run 'swapon -v /swap' does it enable it? Is dmesg happy? |
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> |
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