Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:44:26 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: John Mills <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, Julien Bournelle <Julien.Bournelle@int-evry.fr> Subject: Re: Re: Checking RAM and swap use Message-ID: <20021029144426.GA25658@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210290931210.2389-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> References: <20021029134844.GJ26305@ipv6-5.int-evry.fr> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210290931210.2389-100000@otter.mills-atl.com>
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:37:13AM -0500, John Mills wrote: > Julien - > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Julien Bournelle wrote: > > > > Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe my > > > installation and start again? > > > it depend if you have free space on your hard disk, if so you can try growfs. > > If not, you have to wipe your installation and start again :-( > > I have at least one partition which is very little used. I may be able to > sacrifice just that one. Can I use more than one 'swap' partition, or is > my old, small (32MBy) swap just lost space? (I could make it a regular > partition for something like /tmp, I suppose.) With the default settings you can have up to four swap partitions so you can just add another one while still using the old one. For efficiency reasons it is desirable to have all swap partitions of roughly equal size but it is not necessary. > > > good luck > > Well, this is a 'project' computer to learn about FreeBSD and eventually > run mail service. I didn't count on kernel rebuilds when I set it up, but > it's not running anything vital at present. > > Merci. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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