From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 17 11:31:02 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA14548 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:31:02 -0700 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA14540 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:30:58 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA14381; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:32:54 -0600 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 12:32:54 -0600 Message-Id: <199507171832.MAA14381@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Brian Handy Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Increase swap Q In-Reply-To: References: <199507140830.SAA15737@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Reply-To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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