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Re: bin/57921: swapon: Do not overwrite Linux swap header
> On Feb 10, 2024, at 12:40 PM, matthew green <mrg%eterna23.net@localhost> wrote:
>
> i'm confused. we skip the first PAGE_SIZE bytes on block devices,
> ie, any mbr or gpt accessed for this would be a block device.
Wait, what? Why would we do this? The block device specified for swap should be a partition, I don’t see any reason whatsoever to skip any part of a partition assigned swap duty.
-- thorpej
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