Merge pull request #436 from jmlntw/fix-swapfile

Fix "swapon: swapfile has holes" error in Linux kernel 5.7
helmuthdu · Jul 8, 2020 · 18ee6a5 · 18ee6a5
2 parents 5c21147 + d1bd0b8
commit 18ee6a5
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diff --git a/fifo b/fifo
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ format_partitions() {
         ;;
       2)
         total_memory=$(grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo | awk '{print $2/1024}' | sed 's/\..*//')
-        fallocate -l "${total_memory}"M "${MOUNTPOINT}"/swapfile
+        dd if=/dev/zero of="${MOUNTPOINT}"/swapfile bs=1M count="${total_memory}" status=progress
         chmod 600 "${MOUNTPOINT}"/swapfile
         mkswap "${MOUNTPOINT}"/swapfile
         swapon "${MOUNTPOINT}"/swapfile