The reason why I am using a file as my swap partition is because, I want
to be able to change the size of my swap just as easy as if I was to
create a smaller or larger file.
In the swsusp kernel documentation:
Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt
It says that the swap files need not to be contiguous. swsusp need only
to find the header of the the swap-file to find where all the blocks
belonging to the swap-file are located and use it.
The reason why I wanted to backup my data first in case something go
wrong was just because, I was not certain that the header was in the
first block of the swapfile, and I am not sure whether swsusp do check
if the file being used is a valid swap-file.
Thank you to Theodore Tso, for reminding me to multiply the block number
by the size of a single block, otherwise I was going to use the block
number instead of calculating its offset.
I still haven't tried anything, because I only have one machine and I
need to wait till the weekend when I don't need to use it much for work
and try it. So if something wrong happen, I have enough time to fix it.
I will let you guys know of the outcome...
William Tambe
Stephen Samuel wrote:
What I'd note here is that the file has discontinuities, so this file
is probably not appropriate for doing suspends to swap.
At a quick guess, you probably need to either:
1) set up a proper swap PARTITION.
(e.g. remove the current swap file, shrink the /var (or /, as the case
may be) partition by that much, and then use the newly freed space to
create a proper partition.)
I believe that you can use qtparted to do the work of shrinking the
partition for you. You might want to download a live-CD linux (like
Knoppix, or the Ubuntu live CD) so that you can do the resize without
having to worry about the partition being in use.
or
2) Find a program that will allow you to allocate a file as one
contiguous chunk (nothing off the top of my head). then allocate the
swap file using that,
On 7/23/07, Stephen Samuel <darkonc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What I'd note here is that the file has discontinuities, so this file
is probably not appropriate for doing suspends to swap.
At a quick guess, you probably need to either:
1) set up a proper swap PARTITION.
(e.g. remove the current swap file, shrink the /var (or /, as the case
may be) partition by that much, and then use the newly freed space to
create a proper partition.)
I believe that you can use qtparted to do the work of shrinking the
partition for you. You might want to download a live-CD linux (like
Knoppix, or the Ubuntu live CD) so that you can do the resize without
having to worry about the partition being in use.
or
2) Find a program that will allow you to allocate a file as one
contiguous chunk (nothing off the top of my head). then allocate the
swap file using that,
On 7/23/07, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:17:40PM -0500, William Tambe wrote:
> > Thank you for warning me, I am already using a specific file as my
swap,
> > so I had already done mkswap on it.
> > I only wanted to be able suspend on it and resume from it using
swsusp.
> > To do that I needed to give to the kernel as arguments the following:
> > resume=<swap_file_partition> resume_offset=<swap_file_header_offset>
>
> If you have the filefrag program, you can just do
>
> # filefrag -v /var/cache/swap | head
> Checking /var/cache/swap
> Filesystem type is: ef53
> Filesystem cylinder groups is approximately 578
> Blocksize of file /var/cache/swap is 4096
> File size of /var/cache/swap is 1073741824 (262144 blocks)
> First block: 13778944
> Last block: 14406757
> Discontinuity: Block 6137 is at 13785112 (was 13785087)
> Discontinuity: Block 12251 is at 13791992 (was 13791231)
>
> So the first block is 13778944. So the byte offset is 4096*13778944
> or 56438554624.
>
>
> - Ted
>
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