From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 11: 4:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB35B37B4AE for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:04:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g0SJ3n6m016701; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:03:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:03:49 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke X-X-Sender: ken@fremont.bolingbroke.com To: alexus Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: out of swap space In-Reply-To: <003201c1a827$7724dce0$0d00a8c0@alexus> Message-ID: <20020128110145.J15976-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is covered in the FreeBSD handbook. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html In particular, you could create a swapfile on /, without changing the partition. That would be a short-term fix; long-term, you'd want to partition your drives such that you have sufficient raw swap space. Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, alexus wrote: > how can i allocate another partition on live server? > > i mean i can't put another hard drive there.. > due to i have planty of space on this drive can i somehow cut a little bit > of / partition and make it add to swap? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message