Need help with a swap file
Glenn Dawson
glenn at antimatter.net
Wed Apr 27 17:26:56 PDT 2005
Opps....I should read more carefully before I send...ignore my last message.
-Glenn
At 05:18 PM 4/27/2005, Lisa Casey wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I think I screwed up. Perhaps someone here can help me. I need more swap
>space on my FreeBSD 4.6 box. I followed the directions at
>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html
>for "Creating a swapfile for FreeBSD 4.X". The example given in the
>handbook was for a 64 MG swapfile. I wanted to create a 200 MG swapfile. So
>for the command in the example that says:
># dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1024k count=64
>I typed instead:
># dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1024k count=200
>
>I put the swap file info in rc.conf:
>
>swapfile="/usr/swap0" # aux swapfile
>
>and enabled the swap file (as per the directions) by typing
># vnconfig -e /dev/vn0b /usr/swap0 swap
>
>Before I created the new swapfile, swapinfo gave me this information:
>
>Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
>/dev/ad0s1b 115296 11588 103708 10% Interleaved
>
>Now swapinfo gives me this:
>
>Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
>/dev/ad0s1b 115296 8136 107160 7% Interleaved
>/dev/rvn0b 72 0 72 0% Interleaved
>Total 115368 8136 107232 7%
>
>When I look at the size of the swap0 file I created in /usr, it is not the
>200 MG I thought I was getting:
>
>-rw------- 1 root wheel 204800 Apr 27 15:58 swap0
>
>How can I undo this and redo it? What do I need to do to do it RIGHT this
>time??
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lisa Casey
>
>
>
>
>
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