From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 20: 0:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B3A37B709; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA78965; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:00:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:00:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Ariel Burbaickij , Alfred Perlstein , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to extend swap ? In-Reply-To: <20000727233148.N59315@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> 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 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