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From: Eric.Feillant@EUnet.fr (Eric Feillant)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: increase swap space
Date: 12 Sep 1996 15:53:50 GMT
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In article <519a9q$5ce@brutus.teleteam.net>, griffin@brutus.teleteam.net 
says...
>
>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


 swapinfo to see the swap space


 swapon to install new swap space from a disk.


 eric.