Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 00:18:34 -0700 From: Scanner <scanner@apricot.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can we add a swap file? Message-ID: <199605150718.AAA10625@ryoohki.apricot.com>
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Hello! Everyone who helped get the SMC Ethernet card working thank you very much. If I had just read the GENERIC kernel I would have seen what IRQ it wanted to use. (This was compounded though by not having any DOS disks at all in the house, so I had to go hunt down a copy just so I could boot the machine, run EZSTART and then load BSD.. B-P ) But now for my next problem.. I have a machine which every now and then runs out of swap, I think. It is running FreeBSD-2.1 and all the disk space has been used so I can not repartition it without having to rebuild the machine which is something I very much do not want to do at this time. I do have space on another partition on a disk that is attached to this system and I would like to make a swap file on that partition and use that.. but what I see in the documentation leaves me to believe that you can only swap to devices, not regular files. Is this true? As usually I will continue poking. Thanks in advance! --Scanner (scanner@apricot.com)
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