Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Jul 2003 15:53:27 +1000 | From | Daniel Cavanagh <> | Subject | linux kernel problem (disklabel and swap) |
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hi
i recently had the problem with a bsd disklabel and swap and as someone suggested, the swap slice did not have SWAPSPACE in it and that running mkswap would fix this. sure enough it did, but then i wondered why swapon allowed /dev/hda3 as a valid swap. so i had a look and SWAPSPACE2 was there, right at the start of the openbsd partition, inside the disklabel. so i have come to the conclusion that openbsd tells the world via the disklabel that a partition/slice is swap rather than at the start of the swap slice. the linux kernel does not know this and wants SWAPSPACE2 at the start of the partition/slice. to test this i booted up openbsd and forced it to swap. it wrote over the SWAPSPACE2 in the slice. so i think that the linux kernel needs to be fix so that if an openbsd partition exists, the kernel expects SWAPSPACE2 in the disklabel rather than the actual swap slice. i don't know if this is true for other *BSD though.
i hope this helps.
thanks, daniel.
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