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Swap on LVM - swapoff problem

linux-lvm George Karaolides 2 participants 2 messages Apr 7, 2003

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Hi Patrick,

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Odd, it seems fine here. what version LVM are you using ?

1.0.4 on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 "woody"

Some machines have the Debian package from stable (version 1.0.4-4) and some the version from testing (version 1.0.4-6)

The problem is identical on all machines: swapoff does not work if the LVM swap device is listed in /etc/fstab, but works just fine if swap on the LVM swap device is started manually with swapon after the system starts.

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Hi Patrick,

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Odd, it seems fine here. what version LVM are you using ?

1.0.4 on Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 "woody"

Some machines have the Debian package from stable (version 1.0.4-4) and some the version from testing (version 1.0.4-6)

Actually, I'm more interested in the kernel LVM version. The tools have no impact on how swappping works. Sorry I should have said. The first line of /proc/lvm/global should tell you that.

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The problem is identical on all machines: swapoff does not work if the LVM swap device is listed in /etc/fstab, but works just fine if swap on the LVM swap device is started manually with swapon after the system starts.

Yes, I tried that. You should check that that when you do swapoff that the device actually exists: and that the major/minor matches that of the device when it was swapped on. I think /proc/swaps should tell you this.

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