From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 6:34:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72FE37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:34:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3044843E6E for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:34:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmmills@telocity.com) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02415; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:37:13 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:37:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: FreeBSD-questions Cc: Julien Bournelle Subject: Re: Checking RAM and swap use In-Reply-To: <20021029134844.GJ26305@ipv6-5.int-evry.fr> Message-ID: 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 Julien - On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Julien Bournelle wrote: > > Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe my > > installation and start again? > it depend if you have free space on your hard disk, if so you can try growfs. > If not, you have to wipe your installation and start again :-( I have at least one partition which is very little used. I may be able to sacrifice just that one. Can I use more than one 'swap' partition, or is my old, small (32MBy) swap just lost space? (I could make it a regular partition for something like /tmp, I suppose.) > good luck Well, this is a 'project' computer to learn about FreeBSD and eventually run mail service. I didn't count on kernel rebuilds when I set it up, but it's not running anything vital at present. Merci. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message