From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 17 02:48:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA22873 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 02:48:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA22868 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 02:48:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA28309; Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:47:39 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 12:47:39 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Robert Chalmers cc: bsd Subject: Re: expanding a live Swap partition In-Reply-To: <199701171018.UAA05637@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> 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, 17 Jan 1997, Robert Chalmers wrote: > I know this is a stupid question, but I don't suppose it's possible to > expand a swap partition on a "live" system is it? > I put together an experimental box, and dont really want to have to do > it all again :-) > > cheers, > bc > -- > Triple-W: P.O. Box 2003. Mackay. 4740 +61-0412-079025 > robert@chalmers.com.au for Whirled Peas http://www.chalmers.com.au > Location: Whitsunday Web Works. 21'7" S, 149'14" E. > No, you'll need to repartition if you want a larger swap partition (though you can backup, repartition and restore, instead of a complete installation). The other option is to use a file with a vnode driver to simulate a partiton inside a file. Look in the archives/FAQ, but be warned that this will degrade performance. Nadav