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

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:01:58AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> 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?

Doesn't look like it.

> #        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)

a = 63 .. 81668222
b = 81668223 .. 81931499
f = 81931500 .. 117210239

c = a + b (the area spanning the netbsd partitions)
d = track0 + a + b + f (the whole disk)

The only free space is track0 and that is used for the MBR (and only 63 blocks).


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