From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Dec 17 9: 2:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E6214F84 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:02:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03117 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:02:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:02:22 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912171702.SAA03117@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap space.. Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (Actually this belongs to -questions.) Mikel wrote in list.freebsd-hardware: > I just bumped up one of my srvrs in ram, and of course the swap space > is not larger than the new ram config...anyway, I am considering adding > another 18g of disk space...if I partition some swap on that drive > would I need to do anything to fBSD; or will automatically note the > change and take advantage of the new config? Just add the new swap partition to your /etc/fstab, reboot, and everything works as expected. Use the "swapon" command to add the new swap space immediately (if you don't want to reboot). Use the "swapinfo" command to verify that all of your swap partitions are really in use. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message