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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2001 23:27:37 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "Nick's Lists" <mrlist@noid.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting dumpdev problems....
Message-ID:  <15098.6329.20349.514065@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <52511419@toto.iv>

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Nick's Lists <mrlist@noid.org> types:
> This is on a 4.3S System - since the mlx driver doesn't have a dump routine
> in it, I've added an IDE drive to the system to hold crashdumps. However,
> I'm having problems getting it to work.
> 
> I created the slice and partition via /stand/sysinstall.
> 
> # grep dumpdev /etc/rc.conf
> dumpdev="/dev/ad0s1b"
> # swapinfo
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
> /dev/ad0s1b        262016        0   262016     0%    Interleaved
> # sysctl kern.dumpdev
> kern.dumpdev:
> # dumpon -v /dev/ad0s1b
> dumpon: sysctl: kern.dumpdev: No space left on device
> #
> 
> I've had a look through the handbook, google, archives, etc, and haven't
> been able to find anything that would point out what's going on. Does anyone
> have any ideas or suggestions?

How much physical memory do you have? I note that the dumpon man pages
specifies that the dump device "must be at least 64 KB greater than
the size of physical memory."

	<mike

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