Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2018 02:09:12 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Samuel Chow <cyschow@shaw.ca>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot setup dumpdev on glabel disk Message-ID: <6f6685d0-08c6-dbe2-62b5-3628f91917d9@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <19f80f48-5fea-e105-18b2-1a64e06acc79@shaw.ca>
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31.08.2018 23:08, Samuel Chow wrote:
> I am running 11-STABLE, and I am experiencing kernel panics when I am destroying a VIMAGE-based jail. Naturally, I flipped to the chapter about 'Kernel Debugging' to learn about 'Obtaining a Kernel Crash Dump'.
>
> However, I am finding that my permanently glabel'ed disk partition cannot be used as dumpdev. Is that true, and why not? I mean, swap can use it just fine. I am unable to find this restriction in the documentation.
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> # grep swap /etc/fstab
> /dev/label/boot01b none swap sw 0 0
> # swapinfo
> Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
> /dev/label/boot01b 41943040 0 41943040 0%
> # glabel status | grep boot
> label/boot01 N/A ada4s1
> label/boot02 N/A ada5s1
> # dumpon /dev/label/boot01b
> dumpon: ioctl(DIOCSKERNELDUMP): Operation not supported by device
That's not about label but underlying device that seems to be GEOM_PART_MBR
and it allows kernel dumps only if slice (MBR partition) type is 0xa5 for "freebsd"
or 0x82 ("linux swap"). Please show output of the command "gpart show ada4".
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