From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 12 00:30:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18711 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from k6n1.znh.org (dialup8.gaffaneys.com [208.155.161.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18701 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:30:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zach@gaffaneys.com) Received: (from zach@localhost) by k6n1.znh.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id HAA20300; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 07:30:23 GMT (envelope-from zach) Message-ID: <19981012023022.A18715@znh.org> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 02:30:22 -0500 From: Zach Heilig To: Alfred , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred on Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 06:47:25PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 06:47:25PM -0400, Alfred wrote: > this is the third time freebsd has decided that wd0s1b wasn't "comfy" > enough for a crashdump and ate a different partition while dumping. ... > also, anyone have something i can do to get a dump of my partitions to > examine why it's confusing the crashdump mechanism? A few questions that maybe might help to sort this out (You can mail these answers to me if you want me to check them): Is that swap partition at least 64K bigger than the amount of RAM you have? (It is good to make at least one swap partition ~25-50% bigger than physical ram if you have multiple swap partitions.. and at least twice as big if you have only one swap partition). Does /usr and the swap device overlap (check 'disklabel wd0s1', /usr is usually on the next partition after the swap partition in the default install)? (size + offset should be equal to the offset of the next used partition) check what 'dumpon -v /dev/wd0s1b' says. make sure 'sysctl kern.dumpdev' matches. -- Zach Heilig If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have to at least consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidę on our hands (Douglas Adams -- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message