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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Mike Kercher <mike@synwork.com>
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Subject: Re: Swap Space Disappeared
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On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Mike Kercher wrote:

> Here's the output of disklabel -r wd2
> 
> [/home/mike] :disklabel -r wd2
> # /dev/rwd2c:
> type: ESDI
> disk: wd2s1
> label: 
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 16
> sectors/cylinder: 1008
> cylinders: 643
> sectors/unit: 649089
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
> drivedata: 0 
> 
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   c:   649089        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 643*)
> 
> There are supposed to be two partitions here...1 swap and 1 UFS.

Well, the swap partition was never created.  In fact, there are _no_
partitions there.  You have a clean slate.  :)

> I don't mind at all repartitioning that drive since there is nothing on it.
>  I have tried using /stand/sysinstall to repartiton and create new file
> systems, but have yet to succeed.  It 'says' that it is doing it, but I
> never see it run newfs and it does not modify my /etc/fstab. 

You may want to do this manually then.

Do you have my FreeBSD makedisk guides?

http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.txt 
or 
http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk2.txt


Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major