Why does the diskdump report error messages when I restart the diskdump service configured to use a raw disk instead of a partition?
Issue
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While restarting diskdump service after configuration, the error messages were found in /var/log/messages:
diskdump: diskdumpctl: failed to add /dev/hdb! diskdump: activating failed kernel: disk_dump: shut down
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 & 4
- Diskdump
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