Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:23:26 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart And VPS Disk: Disappearing swap Partition Message-ID: <20180119152326.a3ebf228725f025865eedcda@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <b43abfb0-61a5-c57f-6f2d-14aa2cb1a784@tundraware.com> References: <511934e8-cbcb-75e2-b4ac-ea06e1a54196@tundraware.com> <20180118213913.b39616554429136e897334fa@sohara.org> <06ff73a3-1c73-3309-985f-297b7dbfa1df@tundraware.com> <20180119075943.aa44341ba798fb1b6c096670@sohara.org> <b43abfb0-61a5-c57f-6f2d-14aa2cb1a784@tundraware.com>
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:55:27 -0600 Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote: > On 01/19/2018 01:59 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > Try adding -l swap1 to that command viz: > > > > gpart add -t freebsd-swap -l swap1 -i4 vtbd0 > > > > That *should* cause a /dev/gpt/swap1 to appear and persist > > through reboots. > > It does cause the label to appear under /dev/gpt, but as before, it Good! > disappears on reboot. Bad. > > Hmm - does vtbd0 exist at all after reboot ? > > Yes, the raw drive and all the partition entries are there. > > This is very strange. From the OS' point of view, this is just > another hard drive. The reason this came up at all is because I have to agree, extremely strange. I'm out of good ideas now. > I got a larger drive assigned to the virtual instance. I was able > to successfully resize the root ufs volume. But when I then tried > to use the last 1G of the drive for additional swap, I ran into > the problems thus described... Hmmm, perhaps there's something about it being the last 1G - try just adding half of it and see what happens. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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