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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!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!newsfeed2!jump.net!news From: Curt Finch <curt@pnk.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: adding swap space Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:15:51 -0500 Organization: Phoenix Net-Tek LLC Lines: 26 Message-ID: <336610A7.41C67EA6@pnk.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pnk.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.7.1-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39931 Primarily due to Netscape Navigator's pigginess, I often seem to be coming dangerously close to running out of swap space. I have extra space in /usr. Is it possible to turn some portion of this into paging space? If not, what steps must I go thru to hook up a new SCSI drive (adaptec2940 pci card is already there and working) and get it to start acting as a new paging space. I assume I can split the drive into paging/regular FS? I'm used to AIX where all of this is trivial for any moron to do (which is good for me you see) in SMIT by clicking on 'Add a new paging space'. (Of course AIX isn't free either and doesn't run on intel, at least not anymore) Thanks in advance for any help. -- __________________________________________________________________ ___ __ __ CurtFinch@pnk.com / / / / / /_/ /\/ \/ \/ Software for Consultants (512) |_/ /_/ /_/ / | / / / /\ and Telecommuters 7950709 ------------------------------------------------------------------