From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 25 14:19:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20589 for current-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 14:19:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from sag.space.lockheed.com (sag.space.lockheed.com [192.68.162.134]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA20584 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 14:19:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by sag.space.lockheed.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/21Nov95-0423PM) id AA19469; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 14:19:37 -0800 Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 14:19:37 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian N. Handy" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Swapinfo: /dev/?? Message-Id: X-Files: The truth is out there Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, When I partitioned my HD many moons ago, I didn't plan ahead and so now I routinely don't have enough swap space. BUT to get by, every so often I create a big file and transform it into swap space via vnconfig. Normally I just use the one swapfile, but today I had a special situation where suddenly that wasn't going to cut it, so I made another swapfile, uttered the sacred words: vnconfig -e /dev/vn1c /usr/swapfile2 swap (Oh yea had to sh ./MAKEDEV vn1 in /dev prior to this.) But anyway, to verify everything's really working, I do this: lambic:~ [13]->swapinfo -k Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s2b 65536 59560 5912 91% Interleaved /dev/vn0c 65536 59648 5824 91% Interleaved /dev/?? 65536 4892 60580 7% Interleaved Total 196416 124100 72316 63% Whoa! What's that "/dev/??" about? I perused the source for a minute until I realized that for me to puzzle this out will be a research project. 2.2-BETA as of sometime this last week. Brian