diane mittnik wrote:
I tried googling and checking docs but couldn't find anything relevant.
I have 2 swap partitions, /dev/sda6, /dev/sda7. 1 GB of Ram
I wanted to wipe my swap partitions, so I did swapoff /dev/sda7, then
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda7, then mkswap /dev/sda7, then swapon
/dev/sda7
With swapon /dev/sda7, I get the following error message:
# swapon /dev/sda
swapon: /dev/sda7: Invalid argument
The following is from man mkswap:
The PSZ parameter specifies the page size to use. It is
almost always
unnecessary (even unwise) to specify it, but certain old libc
versions lie
about the page size, so it is possible that mkswap gets it
wrong. The
symptom is that a subsequent swapon fails because no swap
signature is
found. Typical values for PSZ are 4096 or 8192.
Is it possible that this is your problem? This does not say what error
swapon would give, but it certainly sounds like a possibility in this
case. Does anyone else know more about this situation?
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