Bug 58799

Summary:	mkswap > 2097159 blocks reports negative size
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jeff Wiedemeier <jeff.wiedemeier>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Tom Tromey <tromey>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	patrickm
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Description Jeff Wiedemeier 2002-01-24 20:46:18 UTC

Description of Problem:

Running mkswap on a partition larger than 2097159 blocks (or specifying a size
larger than 2097159 blocks on the mkswap command line with a partition large
enough to handle it) reports the swap size created as a negative number. The
swap is actually set up correctly (and reports the correct size in use after
swapon) but mkswap reports the size as negative

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Red Hat Linux release 7.1.90 (Roswell)
util-linux-2.11f-17

How Reproducible:

very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a large swap partition with fdisk (4G is plenty) 
2. mkswap on the newly created partition 

Actual Results:

Swap is created, but the size is reported as a negative number

Expected Results:

Create swap and report correct size

Additional Information:

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-01-29 20:16:58 UTC

Patch going into util-linux-2.11n-3

Comment 2 Tom Tromey 2002-01-31 00:28:29 UTC

I've put Elliot's fix into 2.11f-18.
It will appear in the release candidate.

Comment 3 Beth Uptagrafft 2002-03-13 14:59:34 UTC

I'm closing this case because it was fixed in the Feb 22 delivery.  Please let 
us know if you still see any problems with this issue.