On 13/11/2020 18:27, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 13/11/2020 18:18, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:31 PM Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net
<mailto:samuel@sieb.net>> wrote:
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> What do "ls -lh /fedora.swap", "du -h /fedora.swap", and
"blkid
> /fedora.swap" show?
>
>
> This is the requested data:
>
> $ ls -lh /fedora.swap
> -rw-------. 1 root root 8.0G Nov 13 15:36 /fedora.swap
>
> $ du -h /fedora.swap
> 8.1G /fedora.swap
>
> $ blkid /fedora.swap
> (No Output)
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> Didn't you have a similar problem a while ago or was that someone else?
>
>
> I had the same problem with the 5.7 kernel, and my solution was to use the 5.6
kernel.
>
> There was some kernel change that might require you to recreate the swap
> file.
>
>
> I have created the swap but they still get the same error.
>
> Nov 13 15:39:33 localhost.HPNotebook kernel: swapon: swapfile has holes
>
> Anything else I can do ?
Looking at
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=256614 and the URL's contained
within
it seems doing a
dd if=/dev/zero of=/fedora.swap bs=1M count=2048 status=progress
may cure the w(hole) issue. :-)
Sorry, the count above was for a 2GB swap file. Increase it to cover your 8GB file.
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