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From: griffin@brutus.teleteam.net (Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: increase swap space
Date: 12 Sep 1996 08:30:02 -0700
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Is there anyway to increase the swap space on an existing disk without having
to newfs the whole disk. We are using a 9gig disk that is split into three
filesystems. One of the filesystems is 8gig and we would like to use some 
for swap space. 


thanks