From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 23:03:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA08804 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:03:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA08758 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:02:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id HAA02999 ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 07:01:49 GMT To: Michael Smith cc: ceo@bbbiiizzz.com (R J Huntington), questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: reconfig info In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 Mar 1996 16:12:37 +1030." <199603120542.QAA26417@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 07:01:49 +0000 Message-ID: <2997.826614109@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith wrote in message ID <199603120542.QAA26417@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>: > R J Huntington stands accused of saying: > > > > We have FreeBSD installed on our server and need to increase swap > > space. The question is: Do we have to reinstall the OS from scratch? > No. See the 'vnconfig' manpage and the handbook for instructions on > creating a swapfile. There is a performance penalty for doing this tho. If performance is critical on your server, creating or enlarging a ``proper'' raw swap parition would be preferable. If you want to enlarge it, it is probably possible to just alter the size of the swap parition and correspondingly shrink the size of the parition following it on the drive ... the following partition will need to be re-newfs'd though. Gary