Swap on LVM - swapoff problem

[George Karaolides <george.karaolides@planitis.net>]

Hi all,

I tried this already on the linux-lvm mailing list, and though people 
did try to help, we never solved it.

I am swapping on lvm devices and having a strange problem with swapoff.

I have the swap device configured in /etc/fstab, the relevant line is:

/dev/vg1/swap   none   swap    sw    0   0

swap seems to work OK but I have a strange problem with swapoff:

# swapoff /dev/vg1
swapoff: /dev/vg1: Invalid argument

If I comment out the swap line in /etc/fstab and start the swap manually
with swapon after system boot, then swapoff and swapon seem to work as
expected.

OS:  Debian 3.0r1 "woody"

Kernel: 2.4.18, 2.4.18 patched with VFS lock patch, and 2.4.20 patched
with VFS lock patch (problem is the same on various machines running all
these three different kernels).

The problem occurs in the same way on LVM swap devices built on disk
partition physical volumes, and also on software-RAID physical volumes.

Any ideas?

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