Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:42:54 +0200 (CEST) From: "Ronald 'Ko' Klop" <ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desperate to shrink a partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906171328580.63893-100000@dlanor.evertsen.nl> In-Reply-To: <10772.929618615@monkeys.com>
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Now the problem: When this system was setup (and partitioned) initially > it had a MUCH bigger swap space than physical memory. It has since had > physical memory added however. It now has 320MB physical and only a > single 140MB swap partition setup for it. There are NO free partitions > and adding another drive to the thing now would be a MAJOR hassle, > and the people who are hosting it for me (far far away) probably will > *not* want to even try doing that, even if I ship them a new/additional > disk drive for the system. You can create a file which you can use for swap. I don't know the exact syntax for it, but it's something with vnconfig and swapon as far as I can remember. There is more about this in the mailinglist archives and even in the FAQ. See http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ129.html#129 -- Ronald Klop http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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