Re: Removing failed swap drive

perhaps reference the swap device by uuid or putting the new device in the same slot would help?

-------- Original Message --------
On 01/08/25 4:32 pm, Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> wrote:

>  Here's an interesting one. If you're swapping to more than one drive
>  (and it's not mirrored) and one of the drives fails, what do you do?
>  Asking for a friend.
>  
>  Okay, you can simply reboot but you might not want to. This leaves you
>  with a failed swap device entry:
>  
>  # swapctl -lh
>  Device:            Bytes      Used:
>  /dev/#C:0x65        4.0G       182M
>  /dev/ada1p2         4.0G       180M
>  
>  Eh? Okay...
>  
>  # swapoff "/dev/#C:0x65"
>  swapoff: /dev/#C:0x65: No such file or directory
>  
>  Fair enough - I'd never heard of #C:0x65 either. Try the actual
>  partition on the failed drive:
>  
>  # swapoff /dev/ada0p2
>  swapoff: /dev/ada0p2: No such file or directory
>  
>  Almost fair enough, as ada0 is fubar and offline. But as the system
>  clearly has it in its list of swap devices, how else do you reference it?
>  
>  I might try swapoff -a and disable all swapping, then add in the good
>  one again but I don't know how it would react because I've never done
>  this, and I don't want to bork it for various reasons - like it'll take
>  me two days to get to the server and I've only so many layers of redundancy.
>  
>  Thanks, Frank.
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