Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:24:16 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding more swap.... Message-ID: <19990428142416.O46511@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199904272055.NAA11056@athena.tera.com>; from Gary Kline on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 01:55:48PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904271338091.2463-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> <199904272055.NAA11056@athena.tera.com>
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On Tuesday, 27 April 1999 at 13:55:48 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > According to Doug White: >> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Gary Kline wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> I'm about ready to add//replace a drive that wiped out several days >>> ago. Can I add swap space on this (3rd) drive? >> >> Absolutely. Just partition off what you want on partition 'b', then add >> that partition to fstab. You can even start using it immediately with >> 'swapon /dev/XX2sXb', with the proper replacements. :) >> > > Man... talk about co-incidence. 25 seconds after I send my > inquiry I saw your note referring to your diskformatting tutorial. > > The -questions group can't get much better than reading my > mind or anticipating questions! > > I'm still on 2.2.8 and I'm guessing that the installation > program will tell me what the /dev/sdsXb is, right? Well, dmesg will tell you. Just shut the machine down, put the disk on the chain, and reboot. > Currently, this is in /etc/fstab:: > > /dev/sd0s1b none swap sw 0 0 > > so after I've added swap to the new drive this should read > > /dev/sd2s1b none swap sw 0 0 > > (?) Looks good to me, assuming that's the drive name. > Until I read your mail (or Greg's), I thought I was stuck with > only 32M of swap. I've got 128M of DIMM. That's far too little. You need at least as much as main memory in order to be able to take a crash dump. Still, that's how I ended up with a small swap partition on the system disk and a big one on another disk. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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