Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Changing partition type on FreeBSD

I had an ufs partition that I've used as a swap device. I was pretty satisfied with this setup until I decided to use it as a kernel dump device. I've ran dumpon on it and figured out it's not possible to use it as dump device. So I decided to change partition type to swap.

I executed bsdlabel and got such error: bsdlabel: Class not found. I've been googling and reading quite a lot of time, lots of such questions are not answered, but finally was able to find a solution. The solution is to use gpart tool. It appeared to be a handy tool and to change type of my ad0s2b partition I executed these commands:



Works great.

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