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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!207.172.3.52!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!feeder.chicago.cic.net!data.ramona.vix.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: adding swap space Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 02:51:21 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <33671619.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <336610A7.41C67EA6@pnk.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 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40000 Curt Finch wrote: > I have extra space in /usr. Is it possible to turn some portion > of this into paging space? You should always state which release of FreeBSD you're running. In 2.2.1 and late releases of 2.1.x, a new "swapfile" keyword entered /etc/sysconfig which will direct the appropriate vnconfig/swapon operations at the file of your choice. Just create the file, edit sysconfig and reboot. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.