From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 16 21:10:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01D337BBB3 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 21:10:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA59740; Wed, 17 May 2000 00:10:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:10:18 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Dru Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ram drive on 4.0 Message-ID: <20000517001018.I58707@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000516224748.H58707@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from genisis@istar.ca on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:58:30PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:58:30PM -0400, Dru wrote: > On Tue, 16 May 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > > Oh. OK. You had me totally confused... And I'm not completely there > > yet. Why were you trying to use this non-existent drive ad1 then? It's > > obviously not your swap device. > > Which is why I'm confused; according to my /etc/fstab it still is. "According to your /etc/fstab?" Who put it there in the first place? Wasn't it you? > Waded through man mount_mfs and tried the example at the bottom: > > mount_mfs -s 131072 -o nosuid,nodev /dev/ad1s1b /tmp > > Wanna guess the error message (drum roll please......) I know what it will be... > mount_mfs: /dev/ad1s1b: Device not configured 'Cuz you have no ad1 drive! Why are you trying to use one? > Anyone have any idea what the correct device name for my swap should be > and how do I configure it? What swap device did you use when you set up this system? Was it /dev/ad0s1b by chance? How about, # disklabel ad0s1 And we'll see if there is a swap partition on it. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message