core dump with dump command SOLVED

[Joe Auty]

On Feb 16, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On 2006-02-16 09:29, Joe Auty <joe at netmusician.org> wrote:
>> Thanks everybody for their help.
>>
>> As it turns out, I guess dump was being starved for memory, as
>> running it while booted into FreeBSD normally using -L to indicate a
>> live filesystem worked just fine. I believe this is because there is
>> an extra swap file available from a normal FreeBSD boot, as specified
>> in my /etc/rc.conf. I'm not sure if my theory completely holds up,
>> but there you have it.
>>
>> Thanks again! I'm up and running...
>
> That's very likely.  I usually start single user mode with something
> like the following:
>
>     # adjkerntz -i
>     # swapon -a
>     # fsck -p
>     # mount -u /
>     # mount -va
>
> Having a swap partition enabled definitely helps to avoid ending up
> without any free memory ;)
>



I was doing swapon -a too, but perhaps this command does not enable  
swap directories that have been attached to /etc/rc.conf?







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