Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:54:26 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-questions), Julien.Bournelle@int-evry.fr (Julien Bournelle) Subject: Re: Checking RAM and swap use Message-ID: <200210291454.g9TEsQ221072@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210290931210.2389-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> from "John Mills" at Oct 29, 2002 09:37:13 AM
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> > 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.) Yes. The system automatically incorporates the partitions you designate as swap. I think you can have up to 4 partitions designated. You can also create a file within a partition and have the system begin using it on the fly as someone else points out in a post. ////jerry > > > good luck > > > Merci. > > - John Mills > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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