On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:32:57PM +0200, Florian Pritz wrote:
> mkswap displays the following output when trying to create swap on a
> 8GiB logical volume.
> > # mkswap /dev/mapper/vg_brynhild-swap
> > mkswap: warning: truncating swap area to 2097144 KiB
It seems correct. The swap header does not allow to address more than
UINT_MAX pages. You have to create more swap areas or use system with
bigger pages.
> > mkswap: /dev/mapper/vg_brynhild-swap: warning: don't erase bootbits sectors
> > on whole disk. Use -f to force.
> > Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 2097140 KiB
> > no label, UUID=5eae2d8b-f664-46f5-983c-bdcd4301fa66
>
> I tried adding -p 8589934592 to force 8GiB, but that doesn't change
> anything.
:-)
> busybox mkswap crates the expected 8GiB swap, so I think this is a bug.
Do you see see 8GiB swap area in /proc/swaps after swapon? I don't
think so...
Karel
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