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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:45:50 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To: John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	DaleCo Help Desk <daleco@daleco.biz>
Subject: Re: Re: Checking RAM and swap use
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:40:39AM -0500, John Mills wrote:
> Hello -
> 
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, DaleCo Help Desk wrote:
> 
> > > Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe
> > my
> > > installation and start again?
> 
> > #man swapon
> > SWAPON(8)               FreeBSD System Manager's Manual
> > SWAPON(8)
> > 
> > NAME
> >      swapon - specify additional device for paging and swapping
> 
> OK - now, can is there a way to set up a fixed-size file a swap space?
> 
> Thanks for any more pointers.

man 4 vn


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