Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:36:20 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: Eugene Lee <eugene@anime.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: resizing a swap partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103241129350.30478-100000@husten.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <20010323114319.B26768@anime.net>
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Eugene Lee wrote: > Does FreeBSD support any tools that can dynamically repartition a > drive while preserving the data in those partitions (assuming > there's enough free space in the new partition layout)? "Dynamically", no, but you can use disklabel(8) to change partition sizes (be carefull, and be sure you know what you're doing!) > I have a FreeBSD 4.2 machine with one drive and I'd like to add > more swap space (I'm getting lots of messages saying "/kernel: > swap_pager_getswapspace: failed" and lots of processes saying "was > killed: out of swap space") I couldn't find any entries in the FAQ > or the Handbook to address this. It's there. Take a gander at: http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/admin.html#ADD-SWAP-SPACE > Also, even if I created more swap files, is there a way to > instruct the swapper to first use the swap partition, then use the > swap file? I don't think so. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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