Package: mount
Version: 2.20.1-5.5
Severity: critical
File: /sbin/swapon
Here swapon -s reports the SIZE of the partition (sda11) FOLLOWING the one we
gave swapon -a (sda10)!
# swapon /dev/sda10
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda5 partition 272124 33056 -1
/dev/sda10 partition 7839684 0 -2
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5168 cylinders, total 78140160 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcccdcccd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 650159 325048+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 650160 70716239 35033040 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 650223 1194479 272128+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 1194543 9873359 4339408+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 9873423 20729519 5428048+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 20729583 33747839 6509128+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 33747903 48943439 7597768+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 48943503 52859519 1958008+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda11 52859583 68538959 7839688+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 * 68539023 70716239 1088608+ 83 Linux
# cfdisk -P s
Partition Table for /dev/sda
First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag
-- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ----
1 Primary 0 650159 63 650160 Linux (83) None
3 Primary 650160 70716239 0 70066080 Extended (05) None
5 Logical 650160 1194479 63 544320 Linux swap / So (82) None
6 Logical 1194480 9873359 63 8678880 Linux (83) None
7 Logical 9873360 20729519 63 10856160 Linux (83) None
8 Logical 20729520 33747839 63 13018320 Linux (83) None
9 Logical 33747840 48943439 63 15195600 Linux (83) None
10 Logical 48943440 52859519 63 3916080 Linux swap / So (82) None
11 Logical 52859520 68538959 63 15679440 Linux (83) None
12 Logical 68538960 70716239 63 2177280 Linux (83) Boot
Pri/Log 70716240 78140159 0 7423920 Free Space None
Perhaps it is some Logical / Primary partition problem..., but I swear it
scares one into thinking it is about to write into my root partition
(Data Loss!)
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda11 1071468 368440 648600 37% /
...
I will check how one can use cfdisk to create such a partition table and
report back later.
Also top(1) shows swapon has got the wrong partition too!
KiB Mem: 505196 total, 402284 used, 102912 free, 16932 buffers
KiB Swap: 8111808 total, 31732 used, 8080076 free, 266808 cached
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