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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding Swap?
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 03:35:36 -0800
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To: Paul Archard <paul@awinc.com>

Paul Archard wrote:
> Is there a way under FreeBSD (2.1) to add swap space without
> adding a new filesystem - e.g. configuring a static file to be a
> swap device.  I haven't managed to find any info on this, though
> I suspect that it is possible.

See the man pages for vnconfig(1) and swapon(1).
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- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project