From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Swap on LVM - swapoff problem From: George Karaolides Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1049724626.3743.30.camel@ariel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Apr 7 09:10:03 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Hi Patrick, > Actually, I'm more interested in the kernel LVM version. The tools > have no impact on how swappping works. Sorry I should have said. The > first line of /proc/lvm/global should tell you that. 2.4.18 machines: # cat /proc/lvm/global LVM module LVM version 1.0.1-rc4(ish)(03/10/2001) 2.4.20 machines: # cat /proc/lvm/global LVM module LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) > You should check that that when you do swapoff that the > device actually exists: and that the major/minor matches that of the > device when it was swapped on. I think /proc/swaps should tell you > this. I can't see anything about device major/minor nos. in /proc/swaps: # cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/vg1/swap partition 1048568 0 -1 Of course I can see the major/minor nos. if I list the device: # ls -l /dev/vg1/swap brw-rw---- 1 root disk 58, 1 Apr 5 22:28 /dev/vg1/swap So now I need to check if these are the same as when the device was swapped on. But no info in /proc/swaps... -- Best regards, | George Karaolides Planitis Communications Ltd., | | tel: +357 22 45 65 00 Office 102, 11 Florinis Street, | | web: www.planitis.net Nicosia CY 1065, | | email: george.karaolides@planitis.net Republic of Cyprus. |