From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 27 0:23:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (UCB-Async4-CRISCO.CRIS.NET [212.110.129.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE4014F66 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id JAA49526; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:57:41 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:57:41 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swapon: Invalid argument Message-ID: <19991027095741.D34924@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <4.2.1.19991026203922.00a6a360@216.67.12.69> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i 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 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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