On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:03:19PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > As long as the swap file is not sparse. >
Tried *fallocate* to create swapfile then swapon report error, something like: swapon: /path2swapfile : swapon failed: Invalid argument Only figured it out several cups of tea and google-fu later that it was indeed a sparse problem. Strangely enough the partition is newly created, formated as xfs, and has over 300G free space on it. dd is the solution. -- Chen Wei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140203124839.GP25217@localhost