Date: 27 Feb 2018 14:16:08 -0500 From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compiling Swap space Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.21.1802271414110.45674@ary.qy>
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> You don't need mdconfig, just make a large file and use swapon like this: > ># dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1m count=1024 ># swapon swapfile Nope. Try it. You need a block device. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap bs=1m count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out # swapon /var/swap swapon: /var/swap: Block device required # mdconfig -f /var/swap md0 # swapon /dev/md0 # Assuming you want your swap space to come back after a reboot, put a line into /etc/fstab and it'll do the mdconfig and mount at boot time: # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/vtbd1 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/vtbd0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 md99 none swap sw,file=/var/swap,late 0 0 -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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