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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: changing a partition to swap, is this OK ?
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On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> Since upgrading to our news server to 2.2-STABLE, I have run out of swap
> space a couple of times.  Its a Pentium 133 with 128meg of RAM and 128meg
> of swap space, and previously the 2.1.5 system running with the same RAM
> and swap never ran out of swap space.   On one of my newsspool drives, I
> have been using it for the misc.* hierarchy.  I dont have any more room in
> the box to add another drive just yet, so as a temp measure, I was thinking
> of reclaiming a partition. Disklabel shows the following
> 
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   c:  4224992        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 2062*)
>   e:  1228800        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 599)
>   f:  1331200  1228800    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.  600 - 1249)
>   g:  1664992  2560000    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl. 1250 - 2062*)
> 
> 
> Can I just change it via disklabel -e sd2 to 
> 
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   b:  1228800        0    swap          0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 599)
>   c:  4224992        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 2062*)
>   f:  1331200  1228800    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.  600 - 1249)
>   g:  1664992  2560000    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl. 1250 - 2062*)

I think that's OK.  I'm not a total pro at disklabel tho, I'd recommend
keeping a backup.

> Does changing the value to 5400 from 3600 have any effect, or is it just
> info ?

It means nothing.

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