I need some swap partion help on new 10.1 install

[Chris H]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 14:58:01 -0700 Eric S Pulley <pulley at dabus.com> wrote

> On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 15:56:04 -0600
> Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 02:42:23PM -0700, Eric S Pulley wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 15:08:55 -0600
> > > Bob Willcox <bob at immure.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I just installed 10.1-release on a Samaung EVO 250 SSD using the
> > > > guided ZFS install steps. Unfortunately, the swap device (it
> > > > partition does exist on the drive) isn't being created:
> > > > 
> > > > # cat /etc/fstab
> > > > # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options
> > > > Dump    Pass# /dev/ada0p2             none    swap    sw
> > > > 0       0
> > > > 
> > > > # ls -l /dev/ada0*
> > > > crw-r-----  1 root  operator  0x57 Jan  2 14:29 /dev/ada0
> > > > 
> > > > # swapinfo 
> > > > Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> > > > 
> > > > # gpart list 
> > > > Geom name: diskid/DISK-S21NNSAFC51114F
> > > > modified: false
> > > > state: OK
> > > > fwheads: 16
> > > > fwsectors: 63
> > > > last: 488397134
> > > > first: 34
> > > > entries: 128
> > > > scheme: GPT
> > > > Providers:
> > > > 1. Name: diskid/DISK-S21NNSAFC51114Fp1
> > > >    Mediasize: 524288 (512K)
> > > >    Sectorsize: 512
> > > >    Stripesize: 0
> > > >    Stripeoffset: 17408
> > > >    Mode: r0w0e0
> > > >    rawuuid: ed197570-92ff-11e4-a9cb-6805ca13097a
> > > >    rawtype: 83bd6b9d-7f41-11dc-be0b-001560b84f0f
> > > >    label: gptboot0
> > > >    length: 524288
> > > >    offset: 17408
> > > >    type: freebsd-boot
> > > >    index: 1
> > > >    end: 1057
> > > >    start: 34
> > > > 2. Name: diskid/DISK-S21NNSAFC51114Fp2
> > > >    Mediasize: 8589934592 (8.0G)
> > > >    Sectorsize: 512
> > > >    Stripesize: 0
> > > >    Stripeoffset: 541696
> > > >    Mode: r0w0e0
> > > >    rawuuid: ed35488d-92ff-11e4-a9cb-6805ca13097a
> > > >    rawtype: 516e7cb5-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
> > > >    label: swap0
> > > >    length: 8589934592
> > > >    offset: 541696
> > > >    type: freebsd-swap
> > > >    index: 2
> > > >    end: 16778273
> > > >    start: 1058
> > > > 3. Name: diskid/DISK-S21NNSAFC51114Fp3
> > > >    Mediasize: 241468856832 (225G)
> > > >    Sectorsize: 512
> > > >    Stripesize: 0
> > > >    Stripeoffset: 541696
> > > >    Mode: r1w1e1
> > > >    rawuuid: ed38d5f9-92ff-11e4-a9cb-6805ca13097a
> > > >    rawtype: 516e7cba-6ecf-11d6-8ff8-00022d09712b
> > > >    label: zfs0
> > > >    length: 241468856832
> > > >    offset: 8590476288
> > > >    type: freebsd-zfs
> > > >    index: 3
> > > >    end: 488397134
> > > >    start: 16778274
> > > > Consumers:
> > > > 1. Name: diskid/DISK-S21NNSAFC51114F
> > > >    Mediasize: 250059350016 (233G)
> > > >    Sectorsize: 512
> > > >    Mode: r1w1e2
> > > > 
> > > > So, what did I miss? Why isn't the /dev/ada0p2 device getting
> > > > created?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for any help!
> > > > 
> > > > Bob
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I just mounted it by diskid under /dev/diskid/... dont know if that
> > > right but it works
> > 
> > Thanks for the quick response Eric, but I don't have a /dev/ada0p2
> > device to 'mount' it on (I thought that we used the swapon command to
> > make a swap device available, not mount).
> > 
> > I suspect that something that is creates the /dev/ada0p2 device is
> > what's missing, but I don't know that that is at this point.
> > 
> 
> :) try /dev/diskid/DISK-S21NNSAFC51114Fp2 instead of /dev/ada0p2

Or, as I read it, anyway;
/dev/gpt/swap0
Looks easier. :)

--Chris
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