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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
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
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Date: 14 Sep 1996 12:54:23 +0100
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Eric Feillant (Eric.Feillant@EUnet.fr) wrote:
: 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.
You can't reduce the filesystem size easily, but you can create a file on
your 8Gb partition w/
dd if=/dev/zero of=/my8gbdisk/swapfile bs=1048576 count=100
(for a 100Mb file) and then use vnconfig and swapon.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....