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Date:      Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:41:46 -0600
From:      "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Forrest Aldrich" <forrie@forrie.com>
Subject:   RE: Problems with disklabel, swap, and Invalid Argument
Message-ID:  <024201bf261a$515b3400$bdc3fea9@megared.net.mx>
References:  <4.2.1.19991102151252.00a6be40@216.67.12.69>

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Hi,

    If you are trying to mount a second disk as your swap partition, I think
that FreeBSD its not capable of doing this right now in the stable branch.

Have Fun...
Ales

----- Original Message -----
From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 2:16 PM
Subject: Problems with disklabel, swap, and Invalid Argument


> I've only received 2 responses to my previous question.   The
> problem still persists, and I'd like to report it now as a bug.
> None of the diagnostics reflects anything out of the ordinary.
>
> These disks were worked on using /stand/sysinstall and the manual
> utilities fdisk, disklabel, etc.   And the following error is generated,
> and is not in the swapon.c code:
>
> bash-2.03# swapon /dev/da10s1b
> swapon: /dev/da10s1b: Invalid argument
>
> I'd appreciate any pointers as to what needs to be fixed here.  This
> is FreeBSD-3.3-STABLE.  Did a buildworld yesterday.
>
> Diagnostic output appended.
>
>
>
> _F
>
>
>
>
> FDISK:
>
> bash-2.03# fdisk da10
> ******* Working on device /dev/rda10 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=2213 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
>
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=2213 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
>
> Media sector size is 512
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> The data for partition 1 is:
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>      start 63, size 35551782 (17359 Meg), flag 80 (active)
>          beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
>          end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
> The data for partition 2 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is:
> <UNUSED>
>
>
> DISKLABEL:
>
> bash-2.03# disklabel da10
> # /dev/rda10c:
> type: SCSI
> disk: da10s1
> label:
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 255
> sectors/cylinder: 16065
> cylinders: 2212
> sectors/unit: 35551782
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
> drivedata: 0
>
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>    b:  2097152        0      swap                        # (Cyl.    0 -
130*)
>    c: 35551782        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
2212*)
>    e: 33454630  2097152    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.  130*-
2212*)
>
>
>
>
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