Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:35:21 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Adding more swap for FreeBSD 10 Message-ID: <CAAdA2WP4f%2BR%2BKm0yr0_mncPE3h0YZO2CRnYfjFp%2BDsoH=JrTqg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412291042580.77379@wonkity.com> References: <CAAdA2WP__b2z8v3PiUDVSCY69d3QaHSmy7LvnZhbeQFuPeGNkg@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412291042580.77379@wonkity.com>
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On 29 December 2014 at 20:45, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > My FreeBSD system is crashing so much for lack of swap. >> >> I used BSD labels instead of GPT and I had it a little rough creating my >> slices and this resulted in me not creating the swap partition. >> >> Now, if I run 'bsdinstall partedit', I see that it is possible to create a >> partition of 5.8GB at the end of my disks. However, the gui from >> bsdinstall >> wouldn't let me commit my changes on the already live disks. >> >> Is there a command line way of achieving the above with bsdinstall without >> destroying a disk? >> >> I am hoping that there is something like 'bsdinstall scriptedpart .....' >> > > Use gpart(8) rather than bsdinstall. With MBR and bsdlabel, everything is > more difficult than with GPT, but it still can be done. Please show the > output of 'gpart show'. > Hi Warren, wash@mail:~$ gpart show ada0 => 0 976773168 ada0 BSD (466G) 0 964689920 1 freebsd-ufs (460G) 964689920 12083248 - free - (5.8G) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."
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