can't use swap after switch to LVM
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 15:07:32 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 16:47 +0200, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> I just switched my desktop FC5 system from using software RAID over regular
> partitions to using software RAID over LVM; everything works fine, except
> I can't enable my swap.
>
> On boot, I get the following messages:
>
> device-mapper: device 9:1 too small for target
> device-mapper: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
> device-mapper: error adding target to table
> .
> .
> .
> Unable to find swap-space signature
>
> My swap volume is listed like this in my /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> If I try to format the swap volume, it tells me that it's too small:
>
> # mkswap /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01
> mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40kB
>
> But 'lvm lvs' reports that's it's 1GB:
>
> LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-d- 1.00G
>
> I've tried deleting and recreating the swap volume:
>
> # lvm lvremove VolGroup00/LogVol01
> # lvm lvcreate -L 1024M -n LogVol01 VolGroup00
> device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> Failed to activate new LV.
>
> What's going wrong here?
>
> --
Did you mkswap it?
Gilboa
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