[SunHELP] help w/ unmirroring swap

Edward Chase echase at studentweb.providence.edu
Thu Sep 30 14:22:03 CDT 2004


I did the reboot thing...

Thanks to all that chipped in their 0.02




> -----Original Message-----
> From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of Dale Ghent
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 6:30 PM
> To: The SunHELP List
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] help w/ unmirroring swap
> 
> 
> On Sep 29, 2004, at 4:38 PM, Edward Chase wrote:
> 
> > Problem...
> >
> > # swap -d /dev/md/dsk/d1
> > /dev/md/dsk/d1: Not enough space
> >
> > Now should I just reboot?
> 
> Yeah, you don't have enough physical ram open for the OS to 
> move what's 
> in swap to it.
> 
> Change your vfstab and reboot. it'll come back up using the two 
> separate partitions that were once the d1 mirror. You can 
> then at that 
> point use the metaclear utility to remove the mirror 
> configuration just 
> to keep things clean.
> 
> This problem doesn't have anything to do with breaking your mirror as 
> another user pointed out.
> 
> /dale
 



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