Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:29:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to extend swap ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10007272219520.1032-100000@sun34> In-Reply-To: <20000727131520.C17222@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> [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 > Thank you but as far as I can remember I have not asked whether is it possible to swap to a file but rather if is it possible to extend swap partition. I have written vnconfig meanwhile 3 questions 1)>How to specify the maximal size of the swap file ? 2)>What penalties in spped of access must one bear due to acess through FS interface ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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