[Tfug] raid help

[Harry McGregor]

Ronald Sutherland wrote:
> Why put a swap file on a raid drive?
Do you really want your system to crash because your swap was on a drive 
that failed?

                      Harry

>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Brian Murphy 
> <murphy+tfug at email.arizona.edu 
> <mailto:murphy%2Btfug at email.arizona.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Quoting ray reeves <rays51ford at yahoo.com
>     <mailto:rays51ford at yahoo.com>>:
>     > I have a nice raid1 array the has been running for some time. A
>     while
>     > ago the swap file on one drive became corrupted or otherwise not
>     usable.
>     > As a result my system has no swap file to use and memory often is
>     > exceeded. I'd like a howto to either disassemble the raid array
>     or to
>     > fix the one drive (sda) that has the error.
>     >
>     > Any help is appreciated.
>
>
>     If a swap partition becomes corrupted, just use mkswap to reformat it
>     and then swapon to activate it.  It shouldn't matter that the swap
>     partition is mirrored or not.  Both commands have man pages.
>
>     Brian
>
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