On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 00:21 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > Ian Masters wrote: > > which show your swap partition, whereas on my problem system, 'swapon > > -s' produces no output at all. > > > > ok, that confirms your supposition, you have no swap configured. All this raised a question in my mind. What's the value of have a swap managed by LVM? ISTM that: 1) swap is usually configured to be the maximum needed (depending on system usage and who you're talking to, 1, 2 times real memory usually), 2) additional overhead with no gain (I know several claim little to no overhead but background tells me there is always *some* even if small), 3) if you *do* increase this LV size to increase swap size, another mkswap is needed to "map" the new space, 4) more swap can be added by defining more LVs for swap, a partition dedicated to swap or a swap file with a file system and then mkswap and activating it. I always just define a partition for that, flag it as swap in the partitioning process and go with that set up. I can envision the convenience of being able to temporarily disable swap, slapping a file system on it and addressing some need. Or even destroying the LV and freeing the PV for other use. But that sounds sort of far-fetched. My *guess* is that the OP failed to mark a partition type of 82 for swap during install and thus ended up with this odd configuration. It's only a guess though. Wouldn't it be better to vgremove/pvremove that thing and flag it as type 82, mkswap, etc.? > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill