[CentOS] mkswap - unable to relabel, operation not supported

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Mar 10 21:24:12 UTC 2011


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On 03/10/2011 04:02 PM, neubyr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am getting following error on creating a swap fs. CentOS 5.5
> {{{
> mkswap: unable to relabel /srv/cloud/one/var/25/images/disk.1 to
> system_u:object_r:swapfile_t: Operation not supported
> }}}
> 
> The selinux is configured in permissive mode. Any clues on what might
> be wrong here and how to fix it?
> 
> {{{
> # /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/cloud/one/var/25/images/disk.1 bs=1
> count=1 seek=512M
> 
> # sudo /sbin/mkswap /srv/cloud/one/var/25/images/disk.1
> Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 536866 kB
> mkswap: unable to relabel /srv/cloud/one/var/25/images/disk.1 to
> system_u:object_r:swapfile_t: Operation not supported
> 
> # file /srv/cloud/one/var/25/images/disk.1
> /srv/cloud/one/var/25/images/disk.1: Linux/i386 swap file (new style)
> 1 (4K pages) size 131071 pages
> }}}
> 
> --
> thanks,
> neuby.r
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Are you doing this on an NFS partition?
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