From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 18 01:03:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00793 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 01:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00786 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 01:03:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00550; Mon, 18 May 1998 09:03:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <355FEB09.803C8AE4@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 09:02:17 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Specht CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap partition??? References: <044701bd822c$4d86e560$e34a05cb@alpine.iaccess> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If you have some free space on a drive create another swap partition - then add it to the pool with the 'swapon' command... See the man page for swapon for details... Probably the easiest way to create a swap partition is to use the 'config' option of sysinstall, e.g. cd /stand ./sysinstall >From the console... Take care you don't nuke any other partitions... Regards, Karl Pielorz Andrew Specht wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a way to increase the swap partition on a running system? > > Thanks again > > Andrew Specht | System > Administrator > E-mail: andrew@iaccess.com.au | Internet Access Australia > Internet: http://www.iaccess.com.au | Melbourne, Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message