From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 00:17:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA03593 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 00:17:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ryoohki.apricot.com (scanner@ryoohki.apricot.com [206.14.224.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA03584 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 00:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ryoohki.apricot.com (scanner@localhost) by ryoohki.apricot.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA10625 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 00:18:35 -0700 Message-Id: <199605150718.AAA10625@ryoohki.apricot.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can we add a swap file? Reply-To: scanner@apricot.com X-URI: http://www.apricot.com/~scanner/ X-Face: 6K2.ZvQgQ.NDQLIx.1pW(xRu*">:}&PX-Ad_!!?wU7H4L"wF"0xEwYu=8Or0V+=5?-eO1XL 7-0Hom/|]B2C7Uznyol-NVnvEk:+sod^MyB4v4qVpPDemr;b@pZdRSXu.'Gm^t0?2l,j[&t.kbc[UW x6Lz^e$K$W Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 00:18:34 -0700 From: Scanner Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)