Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:02:08 -0700 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: John Oxley <john@yoafrica.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software RAID-1 - Swap partition Message-ID: <42CC1CA0.3000809@toldme.com> In-Reply-To: <20050701064849.GA1159@yoafrica.com> References: <20050701064849.GA1159@yoafrica.com>
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John Oxley wrote: >Hi, > >I followed http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ to create a software >RAID mirror. I have two 75G drives in the machine. I allocated 74G to >the filesystem on each drive and 1 G to swap. When I blanked ad1 and >created ad1s1, I didn't notice that it had taken up the whole of the >drive. Can I shrink the mirror partition and have two swap partitions, >or if that is not possible, how would I go about creating a "mirrored" >swap partition? > > Your swap partition ought to be mirrored already. From a similar system: 0-11:01 djh@castor ~> swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity /dev/mirror/gm0s1b 4167488 0 4167488 0% 0-11:01 djh@castor ~> grep swap /etc/fstab /dev/mirror/gm0s1b none swap sw 0 0 -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/
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