Hi!
> We have a machine with much RAM and 4 SCSI disks. We want to have 8 GB
> of Swap space. So I partitioned the hard disks with one swap partition
> of 2GB on every disk. But only the swap partition of the first disk can
> be used after a reboot; the other three swap partitions lose their swap
> signature.
>
> When I call "swapon -a" manually, it says "Invalid argument" for these
> three partitions. After executing "mkswap" on them, "swapon -a" works
> fine. But I have to call "mkswap" after every reboot.
>
> What happens with the swap signatures during reboot?
swsusp plays with them... Are you using swsusp?
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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
Hello,
> swsusp plays with them... Are you using swsusp?
I am not using swsusp.
I found out that as I had alredy guessed the swap signature
("SWAPSPACE2" at address 0xFF6 of the swap partition) has been deleted
after a reboot.
Christoph