fstab-synch

Jay Cliburn jacliburn at bellsouth.net
Tue May 23 02:10:28 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 19:59 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Jay Cliburn wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 17:05 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >
> >   
> >>     Next was the swap directories. It had non-sense addresses for both 
> >> swap directories. Really BAD! I changed it by erasing the /dev/hda swap 
> >> and then re-writing the /dev/hdb3 SWAP just like that. This has been 
> >> working and fstab-synch has not messed with it.
> >>     
> >
> > Well known bug in FC4 Anaconda.  Search bugzilla for details.  There are
> > also posts relating to the condition at fedoraforum.org, if you're
> > interested.
> >
> >   
>     Well I think I will try to get the file fixed up properly and 
> watching it every day see if it stays in good shape. Every new fangangle 
> has 6 side effects that are BAD.

The swap label bug affects FC4 only at install time.  fstab-sync won't
mess with it going forward.

By the way, you should probably check to make sure swap is working.

grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo

Verify a nonzero result.




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