I need some swap partion help on new 10.1 install

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Jan 7 01:52:18 UTC 2015


On Tue, 6 Jan 2015, Bob Willcox wrote:

> I'm ok with all of this. I don't mind the change in names. What I didn't like
> was that in the install of 10.1-release, bsdinstall put what turned out to be
> the wrong name in the fstab for my swap partition. It put in /dev/ada0p2, which
> doesn't exist on the system. I have a /dev/ada0 but no /dev/ada0p2.

Because it is in use.   Run swapoff.  /dev/gpt will not appear unless 
there are GPT labels, which can be set with gpart modify -l.


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