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Re: swapon -a errors w/ devfs

To: Glenn Shannon <glenn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: swapon -a errors w/ devfs
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 21:11:30 -0500
Cc: devfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <3AEF6499.F84AFBBB@sgi.com> <3AEF68BD.D8368188@gecpalau.com>
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Glenn Shannon wrote:
 
> I run RedHat with DevFS, and I don't see the two swapon entries you are
> talking about...perhaps it is a different version than the one I use (6.2
> with updates).

Yep, this is a shiny 7.1 install w/ devfs.
 
> However, I used to have a problem with swapon saying that my swap
> partitions were busy until I re-wrote my fstab (after backing it up of
> course) to point to the actual devfs names of the partitions.

Ok, I thought that might solve it... but it's another thing to work
around.  I guess maybe I'll dig into swapon to see why it has trouble
with symlinks...

-Eric

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