Adding more swap for FreeBSD 10

[Odhiambo Washington]

On 30 December 2014 at 00:11, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
>
>>
>> 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'.
>>
>>
>> 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.



"untested" is rather scary:)

This server is over 1800km away from me!

And there is nobody there to rescue if I blow it away:)


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