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 none swap sw 0 0' >> /etc/fstab -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"