Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:20:04 +0100 From: Bjorn Eikeland <bjorn@eikeland.info> To: David Banning <david+dated+1076356567.15d177@skytracker.ca> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: using a separate drive for swap Message-ID: <opr2u33qwfomdbx5@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040204195605.GA61146@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20040204195605.GA61146@skytrackercanada.com>
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So you're adding a new drive to your box, wanting to keep your old root and other partitions? If so you should be able to just put a freebsd partition and set up disklables b (swap) and c (the whole disk) on the new drive and then add it to /etc/fstab as swap. (This can be done in 'gui' in sysinstall under fdisk and disklabel - not the /etc/fstab edit though :) If you dont want to do any rebooting you can use swapon(8) I think. You would moslikely want to only use the new drive for swapp space as you dont have to share disk i/o with the disk containing the os and your data. hth Bjorn Pa Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:56:05 -0500, skrev David Banning <david+dated+1076356567.15d177@skytracker.ca>: > I have been running out of swap space on my box. > > I had an old 6.4 drive around which I thought would be > useful to add - just for swap - even if it's overkill. > > The installation wants a root mount point. Is that > necessary? I even tried to put a limited / root of > 61 meg just to make it happy but it still gave errors. > > Is there an easy way to do this?
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