Additional swap device on a VG, other than rootVG is not gettting activated at boot.
Issue
- Additional swap device on a Volume Group other than rootVG is not getting activated at boot. Veritas Volume manager is being used for the device used for the VG. /etc/fstab file entries for the devices are
/dev/vx/dsk/bootdg/swapvol swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/vx/dsk/datadg/swapvol1 swap swap _netdev 0 0
- Swap space is getting detected by running swapon -a command after reboot of the server.
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/vx/dsk/rootdg/swapvol partition 8385888 993340 -1
# swapon -a
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/vx/dsk/rootdg/swapvol partition 8385888 993340 -1
/dev/vx/dsk/datadg/swapvol1 partition 9437176 0 -2
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Veritas Volume Manager
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