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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: Eric.Feillant@EUnet.fr (Eric Feillant) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: increase swap space Date: 12 Sep 1996 15:53:50 GMT Organization: OSI & EUnet BRETAGNE groupe EUNET Lines: 22 Message-ID: <519bmf$hhn@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <519a9q$5ce@brutus.teleteam.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.210.137 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.8 (beta 2) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27161 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:1122 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4594 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1333 elo' In article <519a9q$5ce@brutus.teleteam.net>, griffin@brutus.teleteam.net says... > >Is there anyway to increase the swap space on an existing disk without having >to newfs the whole disk. We are using a 9gig disk that is split into three >filesystems. One of the filesystems is 8gig and we would like to use some >for swap space. > > >thanks swapinfo to see the swap space swapon to install new swap space from a disk. eric.