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From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@toy.chip-web.com>
Subject: Re: reducing size of swap
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At 11:44 PM 4/26/99 , al7oj <Michael A. Endsley> wrote:
>I have a 2gig partition for fbsd3.0. During installation, I used the
>"auto" feature to set up the different slice sizes. My swap size is
>137megs. Right now, I am over 80% in my / slice. Is there a way to reduce
>my swap size and place the free space under "/"?
>I have 64 meg of ram and so far have never been close to using any swap
>(even under X and running different apps there.

Doug White already answered this, here's some more...

Try a 'du -d2 -x /' to see what's eating up your disk space on your /
partition. See if you can move some directories to /usr, with symlinks
pointing from / to that.

--Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441


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