Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 02:30:22 -0500 From: Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> To: Alfred <perlsta@hotjobs.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bitten 3 times already. Message-ID: <19981012023022.A18715@znh.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.00.9810111834060.20827-100000@fs3.ny.genx.net>; from Alfred on Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 06:47:25PM -0400 References: <Pine.SOL.4.00.9810111834060.20827-100000@fs3.ny.genx.net>
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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 <zach@gaffaneys.com> 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
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