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From: Paul Archard <paul@awinc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Adding Swap?
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:46:21 -0800
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Hi All,

Is there a way under FreeBSD (2.1) to add swap space without 
adding a new filesystem - e.g. configuring a static file to be a 
swap device.  I haven't managed to find any info on this, though 
I suspect that it is possible.

TIA

Paul Archard