Maximum Swap Size

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Mon Jun 7 10:40:39 PDT 2004


Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> Hmmm... I didn't know there was a maximum swap size on FreeBSD 4.10 of
> 1677216 blocks... Is there an easy way to reduce this partition without
> redoing the entire install?

Yes.  Delete just the swap partition in place, then recreate it using a 
smaller size (using /stand/sysinstall or another tool of your choice).  The 
rest of your existing partitions and the data in them should be fine...

-- 
-Chuck



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