Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 00:43:57 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: Brian Budnick <dreamboy@aros.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap Space! Message-ID: <20000330004357.C17852@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <FCEJKOGNFDIDDJEMEMMOEENECLAA.dreamboy@aros.net>; from dreamboy@aros.net on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:00:53PM -0700 References: <FCEJKOGNFDIDDJEMEMMOEENECLAA.dreamboy@aros.net>
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:00:53PM -0700, Brian Budnick wrote:
>
> Dear FreeBSD,
>
> I have a 13gig IDE hard drive that my partition looks as follows:
^^^^^^^^^
Known as "slices" to this crowd.
> ******* Working on device /dev/rad0 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=1653 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=1653 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 20563137 (10040 Meg), flag 80 (active)
> beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
> end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
> The data for partition 2 is:
> sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86)
> start 20563200, size 5992245 (2925 Meg), flag 0
> beg: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255;
> end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is:
> <UNUSED>
>
> ==
>
> The thing is when I do top or swapinfo it only shows 133MB of Swap Space but
> when
> I created the 2nd partition of 2925 Megs it doesn't seem to be seeing that
> as swap
> space. I would like to know how to get it so that the system uses this 2nd
> partition
> as swap space...
>
> When i do : df (i get)
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a 49583 26838 18779 59% /
> /dev/ad0s1f 9763091 862089 8119955 10% /usr
> /dev/ad0s1e 19815 796 17434 4% /var
> procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
>
> Question #1: how do i find out what the device name is for the swap
> partition?
> /dev/ad0s1x???
You said you have been using swapinfo(8). That shows you your swap.
e.g. on my machine right now,
% swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/wd1s1b 196608 712 195768 0% Interleaved
/dev/wd0s1b 196608 0 196480 0% Interleaved
Total 392960 712 392248 0%
Swapping like mad, ain't I?
> Question #2: how do i get it so that the system uses this partition each
> time
> it reboots as swap space?
% more fstab
% man fstab
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Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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