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#! rnews 1091 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!metro!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adding Swap? Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 03:35:36 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 10 Message-ID: <314E9C08.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <314DA16D.6D88@awinc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Paul Archard <paul@awinc.com> Paul Archard wrote: > 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. See the man pages for vnconfig(1) and swapon(1). -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project