Adding more swap for FreeBSD 10

[Odhiambo Washington]

On 29 December 2014 at 20:45, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
>  My FreeBSD system is crashing so much for lack of swap.
>>
>> I used BSD labels instead of GPT and I had it a little rough creating my
>> slices and this resulted in me not creating the swap partition.
>>
>> Now, if I run 'bsdinstall partedit', I see that it is possible to create a
>> partition of 5.8GB at the end of my disks. However, the gui from
>> bsdinstall
>> wouldn't let me commit my changes on the already live disks.
>>
>> Is there a command line way of achieving the above with bsdinstall without
>> destroying a disk?
>>
>> I am hoping that there is something like 'bsdinstall scriptedpart .....'
>>
>
> Use gpart(8) rather than bsdinstall.  With MBR and bsdlabel, everything is
> more difficult than with GPT, but it still can be done.  Please show the
> output of 'gpart show'.
>


Hi Warren,

wash at mail:~$ gpart show ada0
=>                     0   976773168  ada0  BSD         (466G)
                         0   964689920     1  freebsd-ufs  (460G)
         964689920   12083248        - free -            (5.8G)




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