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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