From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 20 01:58:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C9DF16A4BF for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.if.lt (hermes.if.lt [195.190.141.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C6143F85 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:58:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from snc@post.5ci.lt) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.if.lt (IF DRAUDIMAS mail) with SMTP id A86F83A8CC for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:58:36 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [172.31.16.140] (pool01.if.lt [195.190.141.67]) by mail.if.lt (IF DRAUDIMAS mail) with ESMTP id B35CC3A8CF for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:58:25 +0300 (EEST) From: Simas Cepaitis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <002001c366f0$a94ce940$fe01a8c0@JMICH> References: <002001c366f0$a94ce940$fe01a8c0@JMICH> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1061369986.26871.46.camel@snc> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:59:46 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: RAM increase + swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:58:39 -0000 > Hello, > > If I put in additional 256MB RAM module ontop my already 256MB system, > don't I need to increase the /swap partition size? Current swap is > only at 512 (mem x 2). How do you resize a partition inside a freebsd > slice, btw? > > Thanks in advance. Hello, Resizing a partition is a bit tricky. See disklabel(8) and growfs(8). If you only need to add more swap, you can create a swap file on your system. See handbooks section "Adding Swap Space". But it isn't neccesary to increase swap when you add more RAM. -- Simas Cepaitis