On 5/16/2011 4:41 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: > Motivation, existing RAID-6 swap partition failed. I am thinking I should recreate it in a new format, as currently it is 'Version : 0.90', rather than simply rebuild it. <snip> Forget using a partition. Simply use a swap file. This example creates a 1GB swap file in the / filesystem. You can locate it on any filesystem you wish. # swappoff -a # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=1048576 # mkswap /swapfile1 # swapon /swapfile1 # vi /etc/fstab Add: /swapfile1 swap swap defaults 0 0 and remove your old entry for the failed swap partition. There is little performance difference between swap files and swap partitions with modern kernels. The kernel will map the disk location of the swap file and perform direct disk access, bypassing the filesystem and buffer cache. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
