Your message dated Tue, 06 Aug 2013 16:18:48 +0800 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line reboot needed has caused the Debian Bug report #718844, regarding swapon grabs the wrong partition to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---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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--- Begin Message ---Apparently when making a new partitions one must remember to reboot afterwards, else half the programs on the computer use the old table and half the new table... spelling disaster for anything starting after the position of the new partition...
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