Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:50:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Barbara Streissand <satan@yoss.canweb.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: increasing swap size Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960606224925.7738C-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199606070437.AAA27072@yoss.canweb.net>
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On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Barbara Streissand wrote:
> What is the procedure for increasing the size of swap, without going
> through the entire installation from scratch?
> I know this is possible, someone i know has done this, but he lost
> the instructions for doing that. Basically, I do not want to reinstall
> FreeBSD, just increase the swap.
Found this in the questions archive:
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Subject: Re: Increase swap?
To: rsnow@legend.txdirect.net (Rob Snow)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:00:02 +0930 (CST)
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Rob Snow stands accused of saying:
> I've looked through the archives of mail and news, FAQ's and can't
> find anything that ANSWERS the question: (Losts of questions)
>
> can I increase swap via swapfiles?
Yup. You want to search for 'vnconfig'.
> ie. swapon /dev/wd0s4e/tmp/swapfile.swap
Something along the lines of :
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swapfile
vnconfig -c /dev/vn0 /tmp/swapfile (check my syntax here)
swapon /dev/vn0
> Rob Snow
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