Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:00:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to extend swap ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007272154410.78685-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <20000727233148.N59315@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > You asked if it was possible to "extend it", "it" referring to > "128M of swap". Adding a swapfile will do this, and you made no > mention of the word "partition" in your post. > > Even if you had said that, the answer would be "no" and so > Alfred's answer was more useful anyway. Actually, you can, if the swap partition is immediately adjacent (doesn't matter if its before or after) to a partition you want to turn into additional swap. Simply adjust the disklabel to swallow up the old partition and reboot. If only it were that easy for filesystems too. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures. ( http://www.freebsd.org ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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