Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 21:23:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart trouble Message-ID: <201807040423.w644NirT041295@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20180704041559.GA63030@www.zefox.net>
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> I want to add some swap partitions to the June 28th RPI3 snapshot image on microSD.
> Growfs was suppressed, so the card has 12 GB of free space:
>
> Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
> Cannot read termcap database;
> using dumb terminal settings.
> # mount -o rw /
> # gpart show mmcsd0
> => 63 31116225 mmcsd0 MBR (15G)
^^^^^
> 63 2016 - free - (1.0M)
> 2079 102312 1 fat32lba [active] (50M)
> 104391 5138469 2 freebsd (2.5G)
> 5242860 25873428 - free - (12G)
>
> # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 1G mmcsd0
> gpart: Invalid argument
> # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 1G /dev/mmcsd0
> gpart: Invalid argument
> # gpart add -t freebsd-swap -s 1GB -l swap mmcsd0
> gpart: Invalid argument
> #
I do not believe MBR supports "freebsd-swp" as a
partition type, we only have 0x165 as a FreeBSD
type.
I think you want to create a freebsd type at slice 3,
and inside that you want to create a freebsd-swp.
I am no good with gpart, but fdisk and bsdlabel can do this.
>
> It seems to me this worked with an earlier snapshot, has something changed?
>
> Thanks for reading!
>
> bob prohaska
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