From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 2:27:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pooky.bmk.com.au (pooky.bmk.com.au [203.36.170.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9060137B5E8 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 02:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brendan@bmk.com.au) Received: from garfield (gateway.ozi.nu [203.36.170.241]) by pooky.bmk.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA17826; Thu, 25 May 2000 19:24:44 +1000 Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 19:29:30 +1000 (EST) From: Brendan Kosowski X-Sender: brendan@garfield To: Doug Barton Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How do I set up a swap file ? In-Reply-To: <392CCFA7.EBFF292B@gorean.org> 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 Actually, there was nothing in the Handbook on this subject. I found something in the tutorials on swap space but this only mentioned setting up swap partitions. I want to set up a swap file ( ie. a file on an exisiting ufs ) to be used as additional swap space. Regards, Brendan... -------------------- On Thu, 25 May 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > > > My system requires extra virtual memory. > > > > What is the correct procedure for setting up a swap file and then adding > > it to the systems memory pool ? > > The procedure is described in detail in the handbook. > > Good luck, > > Doug > -- > "Live free or die" > - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire > > Do YOU Yahoo!? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message