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To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Subject: Re: Issue with swap file
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Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:19:09 -0500
From: Andre Goree <andre@drenet.net>
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On 12/03/2014 2:12 pm, Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Andre Goree wrote:
> 
>> Several months ago, I followed the procedure here[1] for creating a 
>> swap file.  This worked great for a long time, up until my last reboot 
>> which coincided with an update to 10.1.
>> 
>> agoree@fbsd10-atl ~ % grep swap /etc/fstab
>> md99            none            swap    sw,file=/usr/swap 0     0
>> agoree@fbsd10-atl ~ % sudo swapon -a
>> swapon: mdconfig (attach) error: md99 on file=/usr/swap
> 
> Is /usr on that system a separate filesystem or part of the root / 
> filesystem?

Thanks for the quick reply.  /usr is part of the root filesystem (this 
server has only one filesystem).

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Andre Goree
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