From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 07:14:30 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 958FB37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:14:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anyfloridahome.com (adsl-068-153-193-052.sip.bct.bellsouth.net [68.153.193.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8C443FCB for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 07:14:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@anything-inc.com) Received: from neo.anything-inc.com [68.153.193.50] by anyfloridahome.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.00) id A10582700AE; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:19:49 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030626100724.00a9c948@mail.anything-inc.com> X-Sender: bob@anything-inc.com@mail.anything-inc.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:12:03 -0400 To: FreeBSD From: Bob Collins In-Reply-To: <20030626010634.GB38728@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200306252055.AA129695918@anything-inc.com> <200306252055.AA129695918@anything-inc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: swap not being mounted (or so I think) 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, 26 Jun 2003 14:14:30 -0000 At 09:06 PM 6/25/2003, you wrote: >On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:55:36PM -0400, Bob Collins wrote: > > > I am running 5.0 Release on an i386 Intel system. I have 256MB ram > > and in /etc/fstab swap is called out for 492MB. How can I tell if > > this is mounted and in use? Mount does not indicate swap (/da0s1b) > > is mounted. > >Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so your emails can be easily >read. Oops, sorry, I was using a web interface emailer. This should work now (Eudora). >swap partitions are not mounted, because they're not filesystems. Use >swapinfo to check swap configuration. Great, it looks fine. swapinfo was exactly what I needed. > > I ask, as I cannot use dump to backup my raid. My raid is > > /dev/vinum/raid and mounted at /raid. When I try to dump either > > /dev/vinum/raid or /raid, the system panics and halts. I am thinking > > the dump is bombing due to lack of swap space. > >With 256MB of RAM, dump should not be touching swap. It sounds like >you have some other problem that you need to investigate more fully. > >Kris You are correct. I do not know what the heck happened, but after triple checking fsck and a remount of filesystems, all is fine. I was able to perform a dump with no errors. Thanks. Now, if I can just get restore to read the dumped tape.... I am getting an I/O error that it cannot read the tape, something about block size difference. I'll research that now. Thank you for your help. -- Bob