using a separate drive for swap

2004-02-04 Thread David Banning
I have been running out of swap space on my box. I had an old 6.4 drive around which I thought would be useful to add - just for swap - even if it's overkill. The installation wants a root mount point. Is that necessary? I even tried to put a limited / root of 61 meg just to make it happy but

Re: using a separate drive for swap

2004-02-04 Thread Bjorn Eikeland
So you're adding a new drive to your box, wanting to keep your old root and other partitions? If so you should be able to just put a freebsd partition and set up disklables b (swap) and c (the whole disk) on the new drive and then add it to /etc/fstab as swap. (This can be done in 'gui' in

[FAQ]Re: using a separate drive for swap

2004-02-04 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:56:05 -0500 David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running out of swap space on my box. I had an old 6.4 drive around which I thought would be useful to add - just for swap - even if it's overkill. The installation wants a root mount point. Don't