From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 7 06:18:53 2004 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 7B48416A4CE for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 06:18:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hotmail.com (bay16-f87.bay16.hotmail.com [65.54.186.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8ED43D58 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 06:18:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from squixy@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:18:47 -0700 Received: from 24.83.120.158 by by16fd.bay16.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:18:47 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.83.120.158] X-Originating-Email: [squixy@hotmail.com] X-Sender: squixy@hotmail.com From: "Richard Liang" To: cpressey@catseye.mine.nu Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:18:47 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Jun 2004 06:18:47.0591 (UTC) FILETIME=[4AE9AB70:01C44C57] cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sharing Linux swap space on FreeBSD 4.9 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: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:18:53 -0000 Yeah, it does. rhliang@Rich-1700:/dev> ls -l ad0s4 crw-r----- 2 root operator 116, 0x00050002 May 29 17:00 ad0s4 Richard >From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> >To: "Richard Liang" <squixy@hotmail.com> >CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org >Subject: Re: Sharing Linux swap space on FreeBSD 4.9 >Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:44:38 -0700 > >On Thu, 13 May 2004 04:19:56 +0000 >"Richard Liang" <squixy@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I am trying to enable the linux swap space I have under Red Hat on FreeBSD > > 4.9. [...] > > So I've tried "swapon /dev/ad0s4" from FreeBSD and it always says: > > swapon: /dev/ad0s4: Device not configured > > I poked around my kernel config file, and changed the NSWAPDEVS variable to > > 2; still no luck. > >Does `ad0s4' exist in your /dev directory? If not, you probably want to > > cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV ad0s4 > >-Chris _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines