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

Thu Mar 10 21:37:03 UTC 2011
neubyr <neubyr at gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
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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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Yup, the 'var' directory in path above is a nfs mount. Is there anyway
I can enable this?

Thanks,
neuby.r