From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: We currently have over 200 machines. Spanning from RedHat 7.3, Redhat 9, AS2.1, AS3, ES3. On approximately 80% of them, we get badblocks reported on swap partitions. This is regardless of OS version, kernel version. We get this on both IDE and SCSI drives. Raid0 array's, raid5 arrays. We see the last 2 to 4 blocks on any swap partition anywhere on the disk shows up bad. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.create a swap partition 2.mkswap 3.active it 4.badblocks /dev/?da3 Actual Results: will show last 2 to 4 blocks. Additional info:
Don't run badblocks on a partition that is currently in use.