From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 21:27:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1FB437B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 21:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 27874 invoked by uid 100); 10 May 2001 04:27:37 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15098.6329.20349.514065@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:27:37 -0500 To: "Nick's Lists" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting dumpdev problems.... In-Reply-To: <52511419@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick's Lists 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." http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message