Adding more swap for FreeBSD 10

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Mon Dec 29 22:17:16 UTC 2014


On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

>             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:)

Back up that machine, restore it into a local VM, and test it there 
first.  But still be ready for a quick trip. :)


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