Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:28:28 +0100 From: Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding more swap for FreeBSD 10 Message-ID: <20141229192828.e7fa7f970f4a3a6f3db409a7@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: <CAAdA2WP__b2z8v3PiUDVSCY69d3QaHSmy7LvnZhbeQFuPeGNkg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAAdA2WP__b2z8v3PiUDVSCY69d3QaHSmy7LvnZhbeQFuPeGNkg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:48:03 +0300 Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote: > My FreeBSD system is crashing so much for lack of swap. > > I used BSD labels instead of GPT and I had it a little rough creating > my slices and this resulted in me not creating the swap partition. > > Now, if I run 'bsdinstall partedit', I see that it is possible to > create a partition of 5.8GB at the end of my disks. However, the gui > from bsdinstall wouldn't let me commit my changes on the already live > disks. > > Is there a command line way of achieving the above with bsdinstall > without destroying a disk? > > I am hoping that there is something like 'bsdinstall > scriptedpart .....' You can use a file as swap. See : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/adding-swap-space.html At 12.12.2 For future references: Create 8G swap file (change count as needed) # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1m count=8192 Change permissions # chmod 0600 /usr/swap0 Add entry to /etc/fstab (modify md99 with the md** numbers not used you want, it must begin with md) md99 none swap sw,file=/usr/swap0 0 0 Use the swap without reboot # swapon -aq > -- > Best regards, > Odhiambo WASHINGTON, > Nairobi,KE > +254733744121/+254722743223 > "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler." > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- --- Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>
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