Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 11:39:05 +1000 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: swap space issues Message-ID: <20200626013905.GB79048@eureka.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1te3ZzyY3JdhQAf4_CbD%2Bsf2sjXzU5PH63T2YV2erYS=A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEC7391qs%2BA-jMpR1RyvR-BmnLyiksXHkQUjsGeePuEZJfMciw@mail.gmail.com> <20200625000410.GA10210@eureka.lemis.com> <CAEC7390VDxbYSY%2B4_fEaYxwdSPzbFWUVTdHw=vbAgq%2Bnmv09Vw@mail.gmail.com> <20200625025248.GB10210@eureka.lemis.com> <CAEC73938Wjb5MHvLW36PdoAy_nso-tSN51AhUYydC6qxY99pog@mail.gmail.com> <20200625052949.GC10210@eureka.lemis.com> <CAN6yY1te3ZzyY3JdhQAf4_CbD%2Bsf2sjXzU5PH63T2YV2erYS=A@mail.gmail.com>
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--hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 23:27:27 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote, without trimming: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> > wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 20:34:24 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >>> On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 18:51:04 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >>>>> On 6/24/20, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>>>> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 9:36:23 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote: >>>>>>> All, ... This would be much more readable if you trimmed unrelated content. >> That's really puzzling. It seems that it gave you much more than you >> asked for. >> >> Try this in single user mode: modify the size of the swap partition to >> 30 GB. I haven't used MBR partitions for years now, but I believe >> that 'bsdlabel -e' will do the trick. Just shorten the length of the >> b partition. You may need to 'mount -u /'. If you do it right >> (check!), this won't harm any of the other partitions: it'll just >> leave 26 GB free between the swap partition and the next partition. >> > gpart(8) works just fine on MBR drives and partitions/slices and has a much > friendlier user interface. "gpart resize" is the command you want. Thanks. I try to offer suggestions that I've tried, and offer an example. I haven't tried 'gpart resize', but it looks much easier. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAl71UbkACgkQIubykFB6QiMGLwCfQxvksUHA6dTtKmecMeS2Imor zeIAn3xegNrJzMo8WCcY3VFSXTNUF8Et =j2wM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi--
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