using a separate drive for swap
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 it still gave errors. Is there an easy way to do this? -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using a separate drive for swap
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 sysinstall under fdisk and disklabel - not the /etc/fstab edit though :) If you dont want to do any rebooting you can use swapon(8) I think. You would moslikely want to only use the new drive for swapp space as you dont have to share disk i/o with the disk containing the os and your data. hth Bjorn Pa Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:56:05 -0500, skrev David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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 it still gave errors. Is there an easy way to do this? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[FAQ]Re: using a separate drive for swap
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 understand.
Is that
necessary? I even tried to put a limited / root of
61 meg just to make it happy but it still gave errors.
What about checking {Handbook, FAQ, man, Google} before posting ?
www.frrebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#ADD-SWAP-SPACE
Is there an easy way to do this?
Replace ad3s1 with your disk:
bsdlabel -w -n ad3s1 | sed '/a:/s/16/0/; /a:/s/unused/swap/; /a:/s/a:/b:/;'
/tmp/mylabel
bsdlabel -R ad3s1 /tmp/mylabel
swapon /dev/ad3s1b
echo '/dev/ad3s1b noneswapsw 0 0'
/etc/fstab
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