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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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