Sharing Linux swap space on FreeBSD 4.9

Richard Liang squixy at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 6 23:18:53 PDT 2004


Yeah, it does.

rhliang at Rich-1700:/dev> ls -l ad0s4
crw-r-----  2 root  operator  116, 0x00050002 May 29 17:00 ad0s4

Richard

>From: Chris Pressey <cpressey at catseye.mine.nu>
>To: "Richard Liang" <squixy at hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org
>Subject: Re: Sharing Linux swap space on FreeBSD 4.9
>Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:44:38 -0700
>
>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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