Ah, I had interpreted it as he installed a box without swap and was now 
trying to add it.

He's talking about zeroing-out a partition, though, so adding another swap 
line to fstab should still be a viable option even if there already is a 
swap partition listed there.

Info for all: You can have many swap partitions/files.  FreeBSD attempts 
to balance swap usage across them on the assumption that will increase 
performance - typically only valid if multiple swap partitions are located 
on multiple disks.  If you put multiple swap partitions on a single disk, 
performance should suffer very slightly.  OTOH, if you're running out of 
swap, performance probably suffers not-so-slightly in the first place!

-Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: st41ker [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:07
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Swap
>
> If I understood correctly James tried to expand existing swap and
> somehow he can not do it by merging existing and new partitions.
>
> On 10.11.2010 19:47, Adam Thompson wrote:
> > Why not just add the necessary line to /etc/fstab, and let the
> boot-time
> > rc scripts mount it like usual?



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