In rescue mode with install media of RHEL5.7 or later, mkswap fails with bigger than 2GB size partition
Issue
- In rescue mode with install media of RHEL5.7 or later, mkswap fails with bigger than 2GB size partition.
# mkswap /dev/sda2
mkswap: warning: truncating swap area to 2097144kB
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 2147471360 bytes
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- RHEL5.7 or later
- Install media (Installation/rescue mode)
Note: RHEL Installer in RHEL6.x media takes different approach. So this issue doesn't happen on RHEL6.
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