Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 16:26:12 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Ron Tarrant <rtarrant@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovering Swap Partition Message-ID: <20060903212612.GC93326@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <44FB4328.6060208@sympatico.ca> References: <44FB4328.6060208@sympatico.ca>
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In the last episode (Sep 03), Ron Tarrant said: > After a random power outage, my FreeBSD 6.1 box failed to reboot > because the swap partition is toast. The disklabel looks to be > intact. I've been researching all afternoon trying to find out how to > recover the swap with something like newfs, but I haven't found any > examples of how to do it, only how to create the swap during a system > installation. > > Can anyone tell me which tool to use and show me either an example or > point me in the direction of more information? What error are you getting? Swap doesn't need to be formatted; it just has to exist if enabled. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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