From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Red Hat/1.0.6-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: If i install RHEL 4 U2 on an HP Proliant server with CCISS hardware RAID and I specify two swap partitions, the labels Anaconda places on the swap partitions are confusing: LABEL=SWAP-cciss/c0d0p swap swap defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-cciss/c0d01 swap swap defaults 0 0 Anaconda appears to take the swap device (i.e. /dev/cciss/c0d0p3), prepend swap and cut off a few digits of the device to fit it into a 16-character space (I have read bug 127892). If I run fdisk -l, I see two swap partitions: Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 36.4 GB, 36413314560 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4427 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 14 1057 8385930 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p3 1058 1318 2096482+ 82 Linux swap /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 1319 4427 24973042+ 5 Extended /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 1319 1840 4192933+ 82 Linux swap /dev/cciss/c0d0p6 1841 2101 2096451 83 Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p7 2102 2362 2096451 83 Linux I have no way to know if label SWAP-cciss/c0d0p is really c0d0p3 or p5. To my knowledge, there is no equivalent to e2label I can run on an existing partition and extract the swap label. mkswap -L is used to create the label only. I would like to request that the label be condensed as much as possible such that the full c0d0p3 or c0d0p5 fits. For example, SWAP could be reduced to SWP. The - could be removed as well, making for LABEL=SWPcciss/c0d0p3 with one character to spare. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.1.1.25-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Kickstart a machine. 2. Specify two or more swap partitions Actual Results: Swap labels are difficult to use in order to narrow down which label is which partition. Expected Results: Anaconda's swap labels should be shortened such that more of the actual device name fits in the 16-character limitation. Additional info:
Created attachment 122389 [details] Reduce swap label from SWAP-device to SWPdevice This simple one-line patch allows me to have two swap devices on HP cciss storage and know exactly which is which. Here is a snippet from fstab: LABEL=SWPcciss/c0d0p3 swap swap defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWPcciss/c0d0p7 swap swap defaults 0 0
This issue is on Red Hat Engineering's list of planned work items for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.4 release. Engineering resources have been assigned and barring unforeseen circumstances, Red Hat intends to include this item in the 4.4 release.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0524.html