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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.ACO.net!swidir.switch.ch!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Swap Date: 4 Dec 1995 15:33:23 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 13 Message-ID: <49v4c3$dt1@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <49lbp9$1b0@calweb.calweb.com> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <49lbp9$1b0@calweb.calweb.com>, Cameron Slye <cslye@calweb.com> wrote: > So how can I go about adding some swap space in a file and not a device. > Say I am doing some big stuff and know I will need more, I know in other > systems you can add swap space in a file. Is this possable with FreeBSD ? Yes, you have to use vnconfig for that. You create a file (with dd for example) and use vnconfig to config the file as a swap device. [ Cc: to Cameron ] -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-