Peter Kjellström wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2012 13.41.53 Philippe Naudin wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am confused by a warning from mkswap : >> >> When making a swap on a LVM volume, I see the following warning : >> mkswap: /dev/vg_SDB1/swap_test6_64: warning: don't erase bootbits >> sectors on whole disk. Use -f to force. >> Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1048572 KiB >> >> Is it safe to use mkswap -f in this case ? > > I'd say it's safe but why do it? > > What likely happened is that the lv you ran mkswap on contained a valid > partition table (or at least boot signature). Out of paranoia mkswap left > the first block alone. So what you could gain is maybe another 512 byte in > swapspace by adding -f. <snip> Are you making swap from a logical partition, or a swapfile? If the former, perhaps recreating the partition might help. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos