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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!news-kar1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Adding swap space Date: 10 Jan 1997 23:57:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5b6l21$q9r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5b5mfk$d8f@netaxs.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33736 heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) wrote: > Is there an easy way to add more swap space to a 2.1.5 machine? I > figure I would have to add another harddisk for that to work. Disklabel your new disk, and reserve a partition (by convention partition `b') marked as `swap'. Then use swapon(8) to temporarily swap to it, or enter it as a permanent swap partition in /etc/fstab. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)