increase swap space
Philip Yzarn de Louraille
yzarn at lhdsy1.chevron.com
Sun Jun 16 02:25:01 AEST 1991
In article <133933 at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> mueller at daisy.cis.ohio-state.edu (klaus d mueller) writes:
>Someone knows ??
>
>I'm having problems with my swap space being too small. So I thought about
>creating a big file and using SWAPON <file name> to add this file to my swap
>space. Will this create a problem when the file is not written in contiguous
>blocks ?
>
>OR
>
>Is there a way to divide an existing partition into two pieces without
>having to re-format the entire hard disk ?
>
>I have a DECStation 3100 running ULTRIX version 3. Thank's for your help.
If you have a partition on your disk that you are not using, then add it
to the swap space by modifying the /sys/mips/config/HOSTNAME
configuration file:
config vmunix root on rz0a swap on rz0b
modify to
config vmunix root on rz0a swap on rz0b and rz0?
where ? is your "free" partition.
Actually, if you have more than one disk, you can also do
config vmunix root on rz0a swap on rz0b and rz#?
where # is the scsi address number and ? the partition you want to use.
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