From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 25 23:01:47 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA10954 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:01:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.119]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA10949 for ; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:01:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00391; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:01:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 23:01:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mike Kercher cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap Space Disappeared In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961222222207.00698c54@synwork.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Mike Kercher wrote: > I'm running a 2.1.5-RELEASE box and had 4 IDE drives in it. I removed one > of the drives to use in another machine (had no critical files...personal > storage only). Anyway, after removing the entries in /etc/fstab for that > device, my swap space is now gone and it is/was on a different drive. Is > there anyway of seeing if the slice of the drive is still there, > reinitiating the swap space or creating a new swap space? You can use disklabel -r to look at the disklabels and see if you have any B partitions assigned on your disks. You can then edit /etc/fstab to point to the new swap space. You'd have either to destroy & recreate your partitions in order to get more swap space, or lose some speed and create a vmswap (?) file. I can't remember the actual name. See the mail archives for this solution, I think someone posted it a while back. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major