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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu>
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To: Jan.Vedeler@student.unisg.ch, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: swap-space
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>  I need some extra swap-space for some special compilation. Do somebody know
>  a trick to get more swap-space without reinstalling the system

if you still have vnode disk driver in your kernel (the GENERIC kernel
comes with vn), then follow the steps in the manual page for vnconfig(8).

--mark.