From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ja-JP; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: Whole device (i.e. a disk device that is not partitioned) cannot be registered as a diskdump-dedicated device. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-24 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit /etc/sysconfig/diskdump to register whole device (e.g. /dev/sda or /dev/sdb) as a dump device. 2. Run "service diskdump restart" 3. Run "service diskdump status" Actual Results: A message "diskdump not enabled" is shown. diskdump service is not ready to dump memory. Expected Results: A message "diskdump enabled" is shown. diskdump service is ready to dump memory. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 175207 ***