Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 75551
mkswap only formatted 128K
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:23 EDT
Description of Problem: I recently purchased a new MaxStor model 6Y080L0 80GB ide drive and installed it as /dev/hdc. One interesting part is that the drive did NOT come up in LBA32 mode. Instead, fdisk -l reports a geometry of 16 heads, 63 sectors, 158816 cylinders. This seems to work OK and I was even able to install and run a system in /dev/hdc1 which allocated: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 8127 4095976+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 8128 10159 1024128 82 Linux swap As you can see, hdc2 is a swap area. I tried to format it with mkswap using the command: mkswap -c /dev/hdc2 but it reported that it formatted only 131072 (128K). I tried this several times but it repeated. I then tried specifying a size: mkswap -c /dev/hdc2 512 This did nothing. I then used parted to format the swap area and it did the full 1GB. After that, I tried mkswap again and it now reported the full 1048576. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.0 How Reproducible: yes, but not after I formatted with parted
I had to rebuild the disk. This time mkswap worked OK. I am not sure how repeatable this will be and would understand this being closed "WORKS4ME"
Done. :)