Bug 111943 - badblocks in swap
Summary: badblocks in swap
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: util-linux
Version: 2.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliot Lee
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Reported: 2003-12-11 20:41 UTC by William C. Mount
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-01-15 19:29:19 UTC
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Description William C. Mount 2003-12-11 20:41:26 UTC
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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.

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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:

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2004-01-15 19:29:19 UTC
Don't run badblocks on a partition that is currently in use.


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