Mounting swap partition

Net Warrior netwarrior863 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 16:50:43 UTC 2014


Hi Steve
After disabling gpt and gptid at boot the swap is back

root@:~ # swapinfo
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
/dev/ada0p2       2097152        0  2097152     0%

Thank you very much.


On 12/15/2014 01:06 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
> Is your disk attached to ada0?
>
> You can check this with camcontrol e.g.
> camcontrol devlist
> camcontrol identify <device>
>
> Personally I find diskid's more of a hindrance than a help so I 
> disable them in /boot/loader.conf with:
> kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"
>
> For reference the same can be done for gpt and gptid, however gptid 
> are more useful:
> kern.geom.label.gpt.enable="0"
> kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"
>
> If your using 9.x I would also recommend moving to 10.1, lots of good 
> things in this.
>
>     Regards
>     Steve
>
> On 15/12/2014 15:34, Net Warrior wrote:
>> Hi there guys
>> It's beeen a long time since I do not use FreeBSD, sice 9-RELEASE, now I
>> back on the road and I found lots of cools stuff and thing which I'm 
>> trying
>> to assimilate, now I have a simple problem which I cannot solve, cannot
>> activate swap partition, can you lend me a hand with this?
>>
>> root@:~ # gpart show
>> =>      34  83886013  diskid/DISK-VB7030ac45-d4933b52  GPT (40G)
>>          34      1024                                1 freebsd-boot  
>> (512K)
>>        1058   4194304                                2 freebsd-swap  
>> (2.0G)
>>     4195362  79690685                                3 freebsd-zfs  
>> (38G)
>>
>>
>> root@:~ # swapinfo
>> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
>>
>> root@:~ # swapon -a
>> swapon: /dev/ada0p2: No such file or directory
>>
>> Best regards
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