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From: Darryl Watson <dwatson>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: More Swap Space ... Any magic tricks ?
Date: 1 Sep 1995 19:15:26 GMT
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We added another SCSI disk,formatted, newfs'ed it, and added a swap entry for
it in /etc/fstab and in the kernel.  This was preferable to doing the backup
/restore routine, because we expect that we will use all the swap space we've 
allocated, at some point in the future.

As far as I know, there is no on-the-fly disk repartitioning utility in BSDi
like with AIX (too bad!).

You know you've got the extra swap space with the pstat command.  Check before
and after adding more swap aprtitions.

Good luck!