From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 13:24: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EAC037C0A4 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:23:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keith@mail.telestream.com) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA15395; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:23:48 -0700 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:23:48 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Ariel Burbaickij , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to extend swap ? In-Reply-To: <20000727131520.C17222@fw.wintelcom.net> 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 This is how I did it back in the early 2.2.x days. May have changed a bit though. 1. create a vn-device cd /dev; sh ./MAKEDEV vn0 2. create a swapfile (/var/swap0) dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap0 bs=1024k count=64 3. put into the proper rc file the line. Sorry can't remember what file it was. vnconfig -ce /dev/vn0c /var/swap0 swap ================================= Keith W. At the helm My non work related site www.cydonia.net ================================= On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Ariel Burbaickij [000727 11:53] wrote: > > I plan to upgrade my system to 128M , currently i have 128M of swap and > > would extend it it is enabled by the fact that i have rather many unused > > > > place in my /usr and /home partion. How to do it ? Does parted work under > > fbsd ? > > You can configure freebsd to swap to a file, see the 'vnconfig' manpage. > > -Alfred > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message