From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 17 20:46:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bell.nelsonbay.com (bell.nelsonbay.com [203.12.6.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76FDB14F34 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 20:46:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamesb@nelsonbay.com) Received: (from jamesb@localhost) by bell.nelsonbay.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/NB) id NAA28049 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:46:20 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jamesb) Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:46:20 +1000 (EST) From: James Burton Message-Id: <199909180346.NAA28049@bell.nelsonbay.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Extra swap space Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Because I am running out of swap space sending many emails at once, I would like to increase it from the existing 32MB ( with 32MB real ). Following the 4 steps in the handbook to allocate a file for some swap space, yields the error message from the vnconfig :- vnconfig: open: Device not configured Step 1: cd /dev; sh ./MAKEDEV vn0 Step 2: dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap bs=1024k count=128 Step 3: chmod 0600 /usr/swap Step 4: swapfile="/usr/swap" added to /etc/rc.conf and vnconfig -ce /dev/vn0c /usr/swap swap Runing 3.1 generic which the handbook suggests would have pseudo_device vn 1, but dont know how to check that either. Any ideas appreciated, thanks james. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message