increase swap space

[Philip Yzarn de Louraille]

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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