Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:57:41 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swapon: Invalid argument Message-ID: <19991027095741.D34924@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <4.2.1.19991026203922.00a6a360@216.67.12.69>; from Forrest Aldrich on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 08:41:14PM -0400 References: <4.2.1.19991026203922.00a6a360@216.67.12.69>
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On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 08:41:14PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Will someone please explain what this ambiguous message means: > > root# swapon -a > swapon: /dev/da3s1b: Invalid argument > swapon: /dev/da5s1b: Invalid argument > > That error isn't even in swapon.c under /usr/src/sbin/swapon. This is > FreeBSD-3.3-STABLE, just built today. It refuses to use swap on > the external array. No matches on a search on www.freebsd.org, nothing. > *shrug* > How do slice and partition tables look on da3 and da5? # fdisk da3 # fdisk da5 # disklabel da3s1 # disklabel da5s1 -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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