Adding more swap for FreeBSD 10

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

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> On 29 December 2014 at 20:45, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>       On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
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>             My FreeBSD system is crashing so much for lack of swap.
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>             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.
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>             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.
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>             Is there a command line way of achieving the above with bsdinstall without
>             destroying a disk?
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>             I am hoping that there is something like 'bsdinstall scriptedpart .....'
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>       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'.
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> wash at mail:~$ gpart show ada0
> =>                     0   976773168  ada0  BSD         (466G)
>                          0   964689920     1  freebsd-ufs  (460G)
>          964689920   12083248        - free -            (5.8G)

Oh, just bare bsdlabels... (untested):

   gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a4k ada0

The device for the swap entry in /etc/fstab will be ada0b.