Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 20:09:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: handy@condor.physics.montana.edu (Brian Handy) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) Subject: Re: Increase swap Q Message-ID: <199507171809.UAA18016@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950717112345.481B-100000@condor.physics.montana.edu> from "Brian Handy" at Jul 17, 95 11:28:57 am
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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
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> Yep...that's a big 4K for swap.
Er, er.
type swapinfo or disklabel -r wd0
>
> 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
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
bs=1024k count=32
for a 32 MB swap file
then
vnconfig /dev/vn0 /tmp/swapfile swap
swapon /dev/vn0
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> ...what's /dev/zero? This is new to me. Anyway, this starts building a
/dev/zero - a null source
> 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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>
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
FreeBSD blues.physik.rwth-aachen.de 2.0-BUILT-19950701 FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-
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