From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 22:49:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA11755 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:49:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA11744 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:49:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA07876; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:50:18 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 22:50:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Barbara Streissand cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: increasing swap size In-Reply-To: <199606070437.AAA27072@yoss.canweb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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: -- whack -- >From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 01:18:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA25480 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 01:18:43 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA25470 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 01:18:36 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA15737; Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:00:03 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507140830.SAA15737@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Increase swap? To: rsnow@legend.txdirect.net (Rob Snow) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:00:02 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Rob Snow" at Jul 14, 95 02:56:47 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 829 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[ -- whack -- Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major