Increasing swap space (Was: Re: X11 server lock-up and garbage on the screen)

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

On 04/11/12 00:28, Michael van Elst wrote:
> If you have some unused disk space you could create a second swap 
> partition. Otherwise you can create a swapfile and use this. 
looking at disklabel it seems that I have some free space, or am I wrong?

#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:  81668160        63     4.2BSD   2048 16384     0  # (Cyl.      
0*-  81020*)
 b:    263277  81668223       swap                     # (Cyl.  
81020*-  81281*)
 c:  81931437        63     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      
0*-  81281*)
 d: 117210240         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 - 
116279)
 f:  35278740  81931500      MSDOS                     # (Cyl.  81281*- 
116279)


I can swapctl out paritition b, then how can I resize it? I can shrink 
also the msdos paritition slightly, it needs a reformat/reinstall 
anyway. I am accustomed to use the sysinst interface, can I use that on 
a running system? I won't change partition a anyway.

Riccardo