On 6/25/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 19:31:34 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >> On 6/25/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 23:27:27 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote, >>> without trimming: >>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>> >>>> gpart(8) works just fine on MBR drives and partitions/slices and >>>> has a much friendlier user interface. "gpart resize" is the >>>> command you want. >>> >>> Thanks. I try to offer suggestions that I've tried, and offer an >>> example. I haven't tried 'gpart resize', but it looks much easier. >> >> 'gpart resize' did work well, > > Yes, I saw that from the gpart output you posted. > >> although the man page for gpart assumes way too much. I was able to >> successfully work my way through and create ('gpart add') and mount >> not just one but two 32G swap partitions. > > Yes, I saw that too. Not quite what I was suggesting: I suspected > some overflow issue, so the partitions should really have been a > little shy of 32 GB. And at least for the start you should only mount > one of them. In the unlikely event that it should threaten to fill > up, you can still mount the other one without rebooting (swapon(1)).
I got greedy! :) i also wanted to embed my newfound understanding of gpart, geom, and swapping into the noggin so I could move on. > > How are things looking now? So far, it works, but there haven't been enough changes in the ports tree that synth even needs a cuppa. I think what I am going to do is to wipe the machine one more time from 12.1R (with 16G swap, as both you and Peter suggest), STABLE-ize it, and see if synth can handle the entire installed ports tree (around 300 primary+dependency ports) without crashing and with conservative builder-subtask limits. It will take it three days to do that, but I think I know enough of the gotchas to get it to succeed. It's a good idea to have a second one in reserve, but when it broke through the roof it happened way too fast for me to actually enable anything. I'll see if I can make a one-character script invocation and try it, though! > > Greg Again, my thanks. You guys are the best! :D -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * **************************************************** _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
