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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 ?  



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