Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2025 20:01:58 +0100 From: Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing failed swap drive Message-ID: <5b38cace-4cb8-405b-8b34-85cbed862955@fjl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <f22613c4-dcde-46ed-bb31-0ca20edff7e7@fjl.co.uk> References: <f5449b7f-f262-43a1-8e85-ddc936868fb2@fjl.co.uk> <DN7SdrGnC-073sHbT2eubDh-EQNl1w9VAw7YhPYlWyRLIWTFDgI_YdxE98k55bg7DhfyGnR8opVteqJ4DtplTQcYA2UxKz0DEEO-HSqN2sc=@proton.me> <20250801152706.27c0e59d@dorfdsl.de> <f22613c4-dcde-46ed-bb31-0ca20edff7e7@fjl.co.uk>
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For everyone's amusement... I went to visit the server and rebooted it. The Dell server BIOS halted with "Drive configuration has changed, press F1 to continue or F2 to enter setup" Doah! I suspected there might be reboot problems but I wasn't expecting anything so stupid. But I was there to press F1. Swap partitions mentioned in fstab that not present at boot time (i.e. on the failed disk) are simply not loaded. The question remains unanswered - how do you tell a running system to stop using a swap device when the device is fubar. The supplementary question - how do you stop a jail running when one of its processes is waiting for an IO operation that will never complete (zombied) also remains.help
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