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Subject: Re: Swap doesn't work
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Alexander.Riesen@synopsys.com
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On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 12:50, Alex Riesen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 12:07:44PM +0100, Vladim?r T?ebick? wrote:
> > > Wow. Any of the errors above prevents swap partition from being used.
> > > How did you manage to see anything in /proc/swaps?
> > > I suggest you do:
> > >  swapoff /dev/hda6
> > >  badblocks /dev/hda6
> > Badblocks finds each time ONE bad block at the end of the partition no
> > matter where I create it or how large the partition is. Syslog shows this
> > message:
> > Oct 27 10:57:45 shunka kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> > Oct 27 10:57:45 shunka kernel: 03:06: rw=0, want=594376, limit=594373
> 
> That's not a badblock. That's an kernel IDE bug. Andre Hedrick and Alan
> Cox will love to see this.

Not on a kernel built with an untrusted hand built tool chain

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