Bug 97434
| Summary: | swap space section incorrectly suggests disk cannot be i use | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Robert P. J. Day <rpjday> |
| Component: | rhl-cg | Assignee: | Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-06-16 20:38:32 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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While it may work if the hard drive is not in use, the partition table should not be modified while in use because the kernel may not properly recognize the changes and because you could overwrite data by writing to a partition that doesn't match with what you expect on disk. I'll add the reasons why the hard drive can not be in use to the next revision. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030530 Description of problem: Section 2.2, to add a swap partition, docs read, "1. The hard drive cannot be in use ...". Not technically true -- you can add a new partition on an active drive, and format it as swap, although you *may* have to reboot to get the new partition table enabled. That section seems to strongly suggest that the hard drive can't currently be used *at all*, which isn't correct. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhl-cg-en-9-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. read the docs :-) 2. 3. Additional info: