From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 17 4:45:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dlanor.evertsen.nl (node11a94.a2000.nl [24.132.26.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5BF154D1 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 04:45:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl) Received: from localhost (ronald@localhost) by dlanor.evertsen.nl (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA64678; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:42:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl) X-Authentication-Warning: dlanor.evertsen.nl: ronald owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:42:54 +0200 (CEST) From: "Ronald 'Ko' Klop" To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: Ladavac Marino , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desperate to shrink a partition In-Reply-To: <10772.929618615@monkeys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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