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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Checking RAM and swap use
To: john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:54:26 -0500 (EST)
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-questions),
	Julien.Bournelle@int-evry.fr (Julien Bournelle)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210290931210.2389-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> from "John Mills" at Oct 29, 2002 09:37:13 AM
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> 
> 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.)

Yes. The system automatically incorporates the partitions you designate
as swap.   I think you can have up to 4 partitions designated.

You can also create a file within a partition and have the system
begin using it on the fly as someone else points out in a post.

////jerry

> 
> > good luck
> 
> 
> Merci.
> 
>  - John Mills
> 


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