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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!vtc.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!tribune.hri.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.scruz.net!dei.calldei.com!not-for-mail From: dave@dei.calldei.com (David A. Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: More Swap Space ... Any magic tricks ? Date: 31 Aug 1995 12:39:06 -0700 Organization: Dal Enterprises Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <42534q$51r@dei.calldei.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.179.37.1 I was amazed when I discovered that I have only 17M of swap space left. I allocated 100M of swap space, and I'm hardly running anything, I thought that would be plenty, but I'm wrong. I need to extend or add a swap partition. With other Unix systems I've administrated, you have only 2 choices 1) Backup everything, recreate the partitions, restore everything. or 2) Add another disk and do swapon Is the same choice for BSDI ? I havent found any magic tricks like on AIX where you can change the length of a filesystem without backup/restore. I think I need to run disksetup to do #1 (or #2) is there any other tools to run ? If I backup /usr and run disksetup, reboot then mount /usr and restore all should be well , right ? If anyone has any suggestions that avoid the backup/restore, or confirm that is required, please let me know! Thanks -David Lee dave@calldei.com DEI