Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:18:40 -0400 From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Need help with a swap file Message-ID: <001b01c54b87$d4653d80$14d71840@lisakc>
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Hi, I think I screwed up. Perhaps someone here can help me. I need more swap space on my FreeBSD 4.6 box. I followed the directions at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html for "Creating a swapfile for FreeBSD 4.X". The example given in the handbook was for a 64 MG swapfile. I wanted to create a 200 MG swapfile. So for the command in the example that says: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1024k count=64 I typed instead: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1024k count=200 I put the swap file info in rc.conf: swapfile="/usr/swap0" # aux swapfile and enabled the swap file (as per the directions) by typing # vnconfig -e /dev/vn0b /usr/swap0 swap Before I created the new swapfile, swapinfo gave me this information: Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/ad0s1b 115296 11588 103708 10% Interleaved Now swapinfo gives me this: Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/ad0s1b 115296 8136 107160 7% Interleaved /dev/rvn0b 72 0 72 0% Interleaved Total 115368 8136 107232 7% When I look at the size of the swap0 file I created in /usr, it is not the 200 MG I thought I was getting: -rw------- 1 root wheel 204800 Apr 27 15:58 swap0 How can I undo this and redo it? What do I need to do to do it RIGHT this time?? Thanks, Lisa Casey -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.3 - Release Date: 4/25/2005
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