Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 11:11:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kkenn@bns.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Corrupted swapspace Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970407110817.8644I-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199704060322.MAA22496@topdown.bns.com.au>
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On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I've just been playing around with my hard disk partitions (resized the > primary DOS partition on my first hard drive using partition magic and > changed the cluster size), which is the only thing I can think of that > was actually changed in the meantime. I added another FreeBSD partition > on a second drive and moved around some directories, but I can't think > how that could have caused the problem below: What error message are you getting that leads you to believe the swapspace is corrupted? All that's there is scratch space that's probably wiped or ignored on every boot. > # /dev/wd0s2a: [proper disklabel] > > [morden] 11:57 ~ disklabel -r /dev/wd0s2b > Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) My 2.2-970215-GAMMA system does this too: gdi,ttyp1,~,19>disklabel -r /dev/wd0b Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) > By contrast, disklabel -r on my other swap partition on the second hard > drive correctly gives me the disklabel summary for the drive. That just happens to work then. > By rights, I should have 88M total swap with these two partitions, but > top was reporting it as 133M total. Presumably as a consequence, my > processes kept on dying with signal 10 and 11 (I'm assuming this is what > hapened when they tried to enter the phantom swap-space). I've removed > the first swapon entry from fstab and it seems to be working fine so far. What does `swapinfo' report with both swap partitions on? > My questions are these: > > a) How did this happen? It should work OK. Your disk may have uncovered a media defect inside the swap partition. > b) What can I do to fix it? Working on that. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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