I just upgraded a blade server via rsync from another server. Rebuilt the initrd. It boots fine... except that it won't turn on the swap partition. Several times, I've made sure swap was off, then mkswap -L SWAP-sda3 /dev/sda3, but when I do swapon -L SWAP-sda3, it complains it can't find the device for the label.
The only thing I find while googling, other than redoing what I've done several times now, is an old bug from CentOS 4, 0001399, which affected *only* blade enclosures: the reporter says that all of his IBM blades were affected (this isn't an IBM). His workaround was to make an ext2 fs, label it, and turn that into swap.
Has anyone seen this recently, with 6.2?
mark
On 01/05/2012 06:14 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
mkswap -L SWAP-sda3 /dev/sda3
Hi,
I didn't know you could create a label within the mkswap command. I always used "e2label" as in:
e2label /dev/sda2 myswap
Try it with e2label just in case. Also, are you able to activate the swap using just the block device as reference?
-- Jorge
Jorge Fábregas wrote:
On 01/05/2012 06:14 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
mkswap -L SWAP-sda3 /dev/sda3
I didn't know you could create a label within the mkswap command. I always used "e2label" as in:
e2label /dev/sda2 myswap
Try it with e2label just in case. Also, are you able to activate the swap using just the block device as reference?
Can't do that: e2label is *only* for an ext2/3/4 partition, and won't work with swap (or at least it didn't when I tried it last year). mkswap -L <label> /dev/sdx
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From: "m.roth@5-cent.us" m.roth@5-cent.us
I just upgraded a blade server via rsync from another server. Rebuilt the initrd. It boots fine... except that it won't turn on the swap partition. Several times, I've made sure swap was off, then mkswap -L SWAP-sda3 /dev/sda3, but when I do swapon -L SWAP-sda3, it complains it can't find the device for the label.
Did you check the partition label after the mkswap? I just am wondering if the '-' in the middle is handled correctly...
JD
John Doe wrote:
From: "m.roth@5-cent.us" m.roth@5-cent.us
I just upgraded a blade server via rsync from another server. Rebuilt the initrd. It boots fine... except that it won't turn on the swap partition. Several times, I've made sure swap was off, then mkswap -L SWAP-sda3 /dev/sda3, but when I do swapon -L SWAP-sda3, it complains it can't find the device for the label.
Did you check the partition label after the mkswap? I just am wondering if the '-' in the middle is handled correctly...
Works on all our other servers. This is the first time I'm trying on a blade (and we have almost no blades).
mark
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