From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 24 2:37: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mr200.netcologne.de (mr200.netcologne.de [194.8.194.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 828B337B71A for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 02:36:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from husten.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-92-126.netcologne.de [213.168.92.126]) by mr200.netcologne.de (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id ACX99515; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:36:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by husten.security.at12.de (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2OAaKS51934; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:36:20 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:36:20 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Herman To: Eugene Lee Cc: Subject: Re: resizing a swap partition In-Reply-To: <20010323114319.B26768@anime.net> 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 Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Eugene Lee wrote: > Does FreeBSD support any tools that can dynamically repartition a > drive while preserving the data in those partitions (assuming > there's enough free space in the new partition layout)? "Dynamically", no, but you can use disklabel(8) to change partition sizes (be carefull, and be sure you know what you're doing!) > I have a FreeBSD 4.2 machine with one drive and I'd like to add > more swap space (I'm getting lots of messages saying "/kernel: > swap_pager_getswapspace: failed" and lots of processes saying "was > killed: out of swap space") I couldn't find any entries in the FAQ > or the Handbook to address this. It's there. Take a gander at: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#ADD-SWAP-SPACE > Also, even if I created more swap files, is there a way to > instruct the swapper to first use the swap partition, then use the > swap file? I don't think so. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message