Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:32:54 -0600 From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) To: Brian Handy <handy@condor.physics.montana.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase swap Q Message-ID: <199507171832.MAA14381@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950717105624.337A-100000@condor.physics.montana.edu> References: <199507140830.SAA15737@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <Pine.BSF.3.91.950717105624.337A-100000@condor.physics.montana.edu>
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Brian Handy writes: > > 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. Uh, nope, that's a 4K procfs. The amount of swap you have configured can be found using the command 'swapinfo'. > 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. That's probably the swap partition. > 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? Why do you think you need more swap? Nate
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