Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:28:57 -0600 (MDT) From: Brian Handy <handy@condor.physics.montana.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Increase swap Q Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950717112345.481B-100000@condor.physics.montana.edu>
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Well...I'm still paying for my ignorance when I installed 2.0.5. My swap
space is way WAY too small. I have 24 MB of ram, and the disk partitions
look like this (240 MB hard drive):
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 22823 12488 8509 59% /
/dev/wd0s4e 179342 121801 43193 74% /usr
procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc
Yep...that's a big 4K for swap.
So...after noting that little problem, I then note I'm short on disk space
by about 40 MB. It appears I've configured away a large chunk of my disk.
The whole disk is (supposed to be) FreeBSD.
SO....my question was about to be 'how do I make a larger swapfile', but I
have a feeling it's deeper than that. How can I figure out where the rest
of my disk went, and any suggestions for how to reclaim it short of
rebuilding the system?
Furthermore...I'm a little vague on adding swapfiles. Specifically,
I have an old e-mail that says to generate the swapfile do something like:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapfile
...what's /dev/zero? This is new to me. Anyway, this starts building a
file that increases without bound until the disk is full. How can I
generate a swapfile of some specific size? I haven't found anything in
the mail archives that explained this in the Fisher-Price tone of voice I
need to hear.
Thanks!
Brian Handy
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