From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 13:28:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de (merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C28F37C0B6 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:28:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de) Received: from caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de by merkur.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:28:06 +0200 Received: from sun34.mni.fh-giessen.de ([134.176.183.134] helo=sun34) by caspar.mni.fh-giessen.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #6) id 13HuBs-0005pZ-00; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:23:36 +0200 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:29:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ariel Burbaickij X-Sender: hg9456@sun34 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Ariel Burbaickij , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to extend swap ? In-Reply-To: <20000727131520.C17222@fw.wintelcom.net> Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Ariel Burbaickij [000727 11:53] wrote: > > I plan to upgrade my system to 128M , currently i have 128M of swap and > > would extend it it is enabled by the fact that i have rather many unused > > > > place in my /usr and /home partion. How to do it ? Does parted work under > > fbsd ? > > You can configure freebsd to swap to a file, see the 'vnconfig' manpage. > > -Alfred > Thank you but as far as I can remember I have not asked whether is it possible to swap to a file but rather if is it possible to extend swap partition. I have written vnconfig meanwhile 3 questions 1)>How to specify the maximal size of the swap file ? 2)>What penalties in spped of access must one bear due to acess through FS interface ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message