From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 11:56:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD60016A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:56:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.clubplus.net (mail.clubplus.net [216.191.22.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C78943D39 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 11:56:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david+dated+1076356567.15d177@skytracker.ca) Received: (qmail 25561 invoked by uid 2280); 4 Feb 2004 20:00:57 -0000 Received: from 3s1.com (209.188.66.29) by mail.clubplus.net with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 4 Feb 2004 20:00:57 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by 3s1.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) id i14Ju8wl061185 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:56:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david+dated+1076356567.15d177@skytracker.ca) Received: from 3s1.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by 3s1.com (8.12.8p1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id i14Ju7u1061161 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:56:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by 3s1.com (tmda-sendmail, from uid 1000); Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:56:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:56:05 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040204195605.GA61146@skytrackercanada.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i From: David Banning X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.80 (Determine) X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) Subject: using a separate drive for swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 19:56:11 -0000 I have been running out of swap space on my box. I had an old 6.4 drive around which I thought would be useful to add - just for swap - even if it's overkill. The installation wants a root mount point. Is that necessary? I even tried to put a limited / root of 61 meg just to make it happy but it still gave errors. Is there an easy way to do this? --