> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stan Hoeppner > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 9:26 PM > To: Gavin Flower > Cc: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; neilb@xxxxxxx; mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Best way to create RAID-6 for swap partition - existing one > failed > > On 5/18/2011 7:11 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: > > We're getting pretty OT here... > > > What obvious thing have I done, or not done, here? > > > > What should I do now? > > > > (I am not panicking, because I can always revert back...) > > > > I tried to implement you suggestion, > > > > # swapoff -a > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile1 bs=1K count=16M > > 16777216+0 records in > > 16777216+0 records out > > 17179869184 bytes (17 GB) copied, 119.642 s, 144 MB/s > > # mkswap /swapfile1 > > Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 16777212 KiB > > no label, UUID=9afbf206-9a79-45b8-ad4b-148f71c440d7 > > 17GB is a bit ridiculous for swap, especially on a single user machine. I once encountered an fsck that required more than 400G. I had to kill the process, slot a new 500G drive, and enable swap on the new drive. -- 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
