Additional SWAP space not being activated after reboot of server
Issue
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The system is unable to automatically activate swap created on multipath devices after reboot:
$ cat /etc/fstab |grep -i swap|grep -i mpath /dev/mapper/mpath18 swap swap sw,pri=60 0 0o Once the system has finished boot process, swap filesystem created over multipath device could be activated manually using following command:
$ swapon -v -p 60 /dev/mapper/mpath18
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6
- swap filesystem created over multipath device
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