Sharing Linux swap space on FreeBSD 4.9

Chris Pressey cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
Sun Jun 6 13:45:18 PDT 2004


On Thu, 13 May 2004 04:19:56 +0000
"Richard Liang" <squixy at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am trying to enable the linux swap space I have under Red Hat on FreeBSD 
> 4.9.  [...]
> So I've tried "swapon /dev/ad0s4" from FreeBSD and it always says:
> swapon: /dev/ad0s4: Device not configured
> I poked around my kernel config file, and changed the NSWAPDEVS variable to 
> 2; still no luck.

Does `ad0s4' exist in your /dev directory?  If not, you probably want to

  cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV ad0s4

-Chris


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