From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 6:49:48 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 9AE5B37B404 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:49:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFC043E6E for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:49:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g9TEnZZ21040; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:49:35 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200210291449.g9TEnZZ21040@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Checking RAM and swap use To: m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:49:35 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-questions) In-Reply-To: <20021029144526.GH4480@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> from "Matthew Seaman" at Oct 29, 2002 02:45:26 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:47:08AM -0500, John Mills wrote: > > > Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe my > > installation and start again? > > No. You can add extra file backed swap devices on the fly --- doesn't > even need a reboot. See vnconfig(8) for details. Ah, true. I forgot that one. ////jerry > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > Marlow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message