From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 04:45:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3EAC37B401 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 04:45:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smmcroute.smmc.qld.edu.au (stmarg3.lnk.telstra.net [165.228.7.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC27F43F85 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 04:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@smmc.qld.edu.au) Received: (qmail 28807 invoked by uid 89); 29 May 2003 11:44:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smmc.qld.edu.au) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 May 2003 11:44:42 -0000 Received: from 203.221.19.11 (SquirrelMail authenticated user keith) by localhost.smmc.qld.edu.au with HTTP; Thu, 29 May 2003 21:44:42 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <1123.203.221.19.11.1054208682.squirrel@localhost.smmc.qld.edu.au> Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 21:44:42 +1000 (EST) From: To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: getswapspacefailed <-- OUCH ! Help? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 11:45:11 -0000 Hi all, I have a mail server which I setup (4.7) late last year. iT often starts to crap out with getswapspace failed errors. a) How can I check how much swapspace I had allocated. b) How can I check if the drive has a bad block on the swap slice c) How can I fix the problem Sorry for being a dummy here but an not a FBSD guru Keith Thanks in adv