Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 18:09:35 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, nik@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/26579: FAQ inconsistency regarding allocating swap with vnconfig Message-ID: <20010425010936.8186A3E2A@bazooka.unixfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <200104181650.f3IGo2B07012@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on "Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:50:02 -0700 (PDT)"
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Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> writes:
> > [ /etc/rc uses `vnconfig ... && swapon` instead of `vnconfig swap` ]
> Hmmmm (a brief pause as he goes off to read the source to vnconfig).
>
> Well blow me, erm, down! I didn't know vnconfig would do the swapon()
> itself if you used the swap argument. I agree that this should be
> changed as you say.
Is anybody actually going to fix this now that RELENG_4 is unfrozen?
Here's the obvious patch.
Index: rc
===================================================================
RCS file: /st/src/FreeBSD/src/etc/rc,v
retrieving revision 1.212.2.21
diff -u -r1.212.2.21 rc
--- rc 2001/03/07 20:13:56 1.212.2.21
+++ rc 2001/04/25 01:06:14
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
*)
if [ -w "${swapfile}" -a -c /dev/vn0b ]; then
echo "Adding ${swapfile} as additional swap"
- vnconfig /dev/vn0b ${swapfile} && swapon /dev/vn0b
+ vnconfig -ce /dev/vn0b ${swapfile} swap
fi
;;
esac
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