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?
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