Disk > Wizard fails to create or activate swap partition on 3TB WD disk
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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Put a fresh Disk (WD Green 3TB) into the otherwise empty NAS - The disk
shows up as expected
2. Navigate to Disk > Wizard and select standard, ext4 and speak the magic word
I expect the procedure to succeed, but instead it gets stuck at the first or
second line (I don't remember exactly, something along the lines of trying to
initialize partitions). Nothing in the logs on the status page about that.
When I check Disk > Filesystems. I see that the GPT swap and data partitions
have been created. There is not way to format or activate the swap partition so
I have a look at the data one (assuming that the swap partition is fine).
So when I try to manually format that data partition with ext4 on the
Filesystems page, it gives me the following error message:
"""
Formating sda2 with ext4 failed with code 1: mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
fs_types for mke2fs.conf resolution: 'ext4'
/dev/sda2: Memory allocation failed while setting up superblock
"""
I reboot to see if that fixes the issue but no dice.
From googling, understand that this is because mke2fs does run out of RAM. So
I ssh into the NAS. "free" shows that there is no swap. So I executed "mkswap
/dev/sda1" and then "swapon /dev/sda1", so that "free" shows me the 512 MB swap
available.
Going back to the Disk > Filesystems page in the admin web interface the swap
partition has now disappeared and I can format the data partition successfully.
Alt-F 0.1RC3, flashed.
My DNS-323 is a Rev-C1.
Issue 11 seems to be related:
https://code.google.com/p/alt-f/issues/detail?id=11
Or perhaps my one here is actually a duplicate of that one. But I wanted to
create a new one to keep things tidy.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by bethke.a...@gmail.com
on 28 May 2013 at 10:37
> I don't remember exactly, something along the lines of trying to initialize
partitions
Without knowing exactly where it fails it is impossible to fix it.
As nobody else complained...
From your description, the partitioning succeeds, but the swap was not created
and activated
For GPT, you could get errors like:
GPT partitioning disk ...
Error creating swap:
Error creating first partition
Error creating second partition
Creating and activating swap in disk
some mkswap error
some swapon error
Not knowing which one happened and what the error was makes it impossible to
fix.
The following errors are a consequence of that one.
> So I executed "mkswap /dev/sda1" and then "swapon /dev/sda1"
Those are the commands executed by the wizard.
Perhaps you could try to replicate the bug, dealing only with the swap
partition, not the data partition?
The following are the commands executed by the wizard regarding creating and
activating swap, if you could try then after stopping running services and
turning swap off could help diagnose the problem:
Assuming that the disk device is 'sda' and the swap partition is the first one,
start by turning off swap:
swapoff /dev/sda1
then copy/paste the following commands:
i=/dev/sda
echo "Creating and activating swap in disk $(basename $i)..."
res="$(mkswap ${i}1 2>&1)"
if test $? != 0; then
echo "mkswap error: $res"
else
res="$(swapon -p 1 ${i}1 2>&1)"
if test $? != 0; then
echo "swapon error: $res"
else
echo " done."
fi
fi
What is printed?
Anyway, this should be reported in sourceforge,
https://sourceforge.net/p/alt-f/_list/tickets, as the previous issue says
Thanks
Original comment by whoami.j...@gmail.com
on 2 Jun 2013 at 4:44
Re-created the ticket in Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/p/alt-f/tickets/1/
You might want to consider something like updating the "Issues" link on the
home page to go to the Sourceforge issue tracker though if you want people to
post in the right place straight away ;)
++Alex
Original comment by bethke.a...@gmail.com
on 3 Jun 2013 at 9:42
moved to sourceforge
Thanks
Original comment by whoami.j...@gmail.com
on 4 Jun 2013 at 2:09
- Changed state: Duplicate