On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 05:40:49PM -0800, bob prohaska wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:29:10PM +0000, void wrote:
fstab entry for swap is: /dev/label/growfs_swap none swap sw 0 0
I've not seen any recognizable benefit in heeding that warning, but YMMV I've two Pi2's with 3.6G of swap and one with 1.7G of swap. All misbehave in the same way. If using USB you could try something like (as root) swapoff /dev/da0s2 gpart resize -i 2 -s 1700M /dev/da0s2 swapon /dev/da0s2
I'm thinking maybe raising this as a PR because that swap thing - it came as-is, pre-installed. I downloaded the Nov 3rd armv7 snapshot, wrote it to mmcsd and it was there. I have no idea how to resize or otherwise modify /dev/label/growfs_swap or if it's a device or a file. Raising it as a PR because if incorrectly sized by default then that's a fault. I had planned to remove the above swap entry anyway and instead have swap nfs-mounted. it'd be faster than anything local on the rpi2b.
If using microSD I'd be wary of swap; some very mysterious file corruption emerged on a Pi3 which had swap on the microSD. Not your situation, of course, just a cautionary tale.
It's on the microsd by default for 16:main for armv7 too as per above
FWIW there is a random collection of "notes to self" at http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd/ It's poorly organized, out of date and at least partly wrong.
Thanks, I'll have a read. --
