Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 23:50:30 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Richard Liang <squixy@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing Linux swap space on FreeBSD 4.9 Message-ID: <20040513045029.GD81440@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY16-F97z3VJZi0ja60001b756@hotmail.com> References: <BAY16-F97z3VJZi0ja60001b756@hotmail.com>
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In the last episode (May 13), Richard Liang said: > Hello everyone, > > I am trying to enable the linux swap space I have under Red Hat on FreeBSD > 4.9. My disk configuration looks like: > > ad0: > s1 - NTFS > s2 - Windows extended > s3 - ext3 > s4 - linux swap > > So I read the HOWTO on the internet about sharing the swap space; and > with it's help I can now swap on the BSD swap space from Linux. > However, the HOWTO only says that "FreeBSD can swap on any partition" > without saying how to do it. > > So I've tried "swapon /dev/ad0s4" from FreeBSD and it always says: > swapon: /dev/ad0s4: Device not configured > I poked around my kernel config file, and changed the NSWAPDEVS variable to > 2; still no luck. You sure swap is on primary fdisk partition 4, and not extended partition 1 (aka s5) ? I think Linux will create an extended partition rather than use up all four primaries. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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