Solved Swap partition is not available

[philo_neo]

Hi,
On FreeBSD lasted version, the swap partition is not available, I'm checked that the partition swap are existing with Gparted, I've declared the system / and swap on my harddrive, that well.
My question is How-to activate the swap partition ?

Regards
Philippe

 

[SirDice]

What does swapon -a and swapinfo do?

I've noticed an issue with the installer where it doesn't correctly name the partition in /etc/fstab. Can you post the contents?

 

[philo_neo]

What does swapon -a and swapinfo do?
I've noticed an issue with the installer where it doesn't correctly name the partition in /etc/fstab. Can you post the contents?

Hi,
i aI understand that you describe in your post, this the answers of yours questions!

1/ swapon -a

root@sta-viper:~ # swapon -a
root@sta-viper:~ #

2/ swapinfo

root@sta-viper:~ # swapinfo
Device  1K-blocks  Used  Avail Capacity
root@sta-viper:~ #

3/ fdisk

root@sta-viper:~ # fdisk
******* Working on device /dev/ada0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=484521 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=484521 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX)
  start 2048, size 278386688 (135931 Meg), flag 80 (active)
   beg: cyl 0/ head 32/ sector 33;
   end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native)
  start 278388736, size 93749248 (45776 Meg), flag 0
   beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63;
   end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
  start 372138039, size 104857515 (51199 Meg), flag 0
   beg: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63;
   end: cyl 1023/ head 255/ sector 63
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 130 (0x82),(Linux swap or Solaris x86)
  start 476995584, size 11401216 (5567 Meg), flag 0
   beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63;
   end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
root@sta-viper:~ #

4/ /etc/fstab

# Device   Mountpoint   FStype   Options   Dump   Pass#
/dev/ada0s3a   /     ufs   rw   1   1
proc  /proc  procfs  rw  0  0

I hope that iI've this different output that you want!

Regards
Philippe

 

[SirDice]

Yes, that helps. Can you also post the output of gpart show -l ada0s3?

 

[philo_neo]

Yes, that helps. Can you also post the output of gpart show -l ada0s3?

This is my output after gpart show -l ada0s3 command :

root@sta-viper:~ #  gpart show -l ada0s3
=>  0  104857515  ada0s3  BSD  (50G)
  0  96468992  1  (null)  (46G)
  96468992  8388522  2  (null)  (4.0G) /* here it's the swap */
  104857514  1  - free -  (512B)
root@sta-viper:~ #

Regards
Philippe

 

[tingo]

Well, your swap partition looks wrong somehow. Here is what a swap partition looks like to gpart:
for a GPT layout:

root@kg-v7# gpart show -p ada1
=>  34  250069613  ada1  GPT  (119G)
  34  128  ada1p1  freebsd-boot  (64K)
  162  62914560  ada1p2  freebsd-ufs  (30G)
  62914722  8388608  ada1p3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
  71303330  6  - free -  (3.0K)
  71303336  62914560  ada1p4  freebsd-ufs  [bootme]  (30G)
  134217896  115851744  ada1p5  freebsd-ufs  (55G)
  250069640  7  - free -  (3.5K)

See the one labeled freebsd-swap?
What does gpart show -p ada0 show for your disk?

 

[philo_neo]

this is the output VT320 with gpart show -p ada0 command :

root@sta-viper:~ # gpart show -p ada0
=>  63  488397105  ada0  MBR  (233G)
  63  1985  - free -  (993K)
  2048  278386688  ada0s1  ntfs  [active]  (133G)
  278388736  93749248  ada0s2  linux-data  (45G)
  372137984  55  - free -  (28K)
  372138039  104857515  ada0s3  freebsd  (50G)
  476995554  30  - free -  (15K)
  476995584  11401216  ada0s4  linux-swap  (5.4G)
  488396800  368  - free -  (184K)
root@sta-viper:~ #

I adding that this configuration of my harddrive work well before change the operating system version of FreeBSD.

Regards
Philippe

 

[SirDice]

Add this to /etc/fstab:

/dev/ada0s3b          none    swap    sw              0       0

Then run swapon -a and you should have swap.