Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:02:14 -0600 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart And VPS Disk: Disappearing swap Partition Message-ID: <06ff73a3-1c73-3309-985f-297b7dbfa1df@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <20180118213913.b39616554429136e897334fa@sohara.org> References: <511934e8-cbcb-75e2-b4ac-ea06e1a54196@tundraware.com> <20180118213913.b39616554429136e897334fa@sohara.org>
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On 01/18/2018 03:39 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:01:56 -0600 > Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote: > >> I have Digital Ocean instance that has about 1G free on the disk. >> I want to use this to create a second swap partition. I am able to >> run 'gpart add -t freebsd-swap ...' successfully. That is, gpart show >> shows that new swap partition as present and I can swap it on. HOWEVER, >> upon reboot, that partition disappears and the space shows as free again. >> >> What am I missing here? > > An entry in /etc/fstab something like this: > > /dev/gpt/<gpt label> none swap sw 0 0 > No, that's not it. There is no /dev/gpt/label to even attempt to mount. Here is what I did: gpart add -t freebsd-swap -i4 vtbd0 gpart modify -i4 -lswapfs2 vtbd0 At this point, I can see the new swap partition. However, when I reboot, it's no longer there. So, I tried to follow the above commands with: gpart commit vtbd0 And I get "Operation not permitted" So, I did this: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 And tried again ... no go. In short, I can interactively create the new partition, but it disappears on reboot. I suspect that the problem has to do with not being able to commit my changes, but I cannot seem to figure out why this is so. And yes, I've tried this in single user mode as well. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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