Why am I unable to run swapon on my CCISS device?

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Issue

  • Unable to activate swap space on CCISS device:
    [root@redhat ~]# mkswap -v1 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1
    Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 49157386 kB
    [root@redhat ~]# swapon -v /dev/cciss/c0d0p1
    swapon on /dev/cciss/c0d0p1
    swapon: /dev/cciss/c0d0p1: Invalid argument
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Swap on CCISS devices

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