Since under NetBSD swap is added to real memory to give total
	virtual memory you dont actually need to increase your swap -
	in fact 8MB + 28MB swap has (pretty much) the same virtual memory
	as a 26MB ram machine.

	The only reason you might want more swap is if you intend to have
	significantly more applications running at any one time
	(though you have gone from 38MB to 66MB VM)

		David/abs

    "Its a bright sunny california day outside, and you're inside."
    "And your point would be...?"


On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Andy Sinesio wrote:

> Hey all.
> 
> I have a Quadra 700 running NetBSD (almost -current) and I just upgraded 
> the RAM from 8 megs to 36 megs.
> 
> Needless to say, it is much much faster.
> 
> When I originally formatted my hard drive, (410 meg seagate), i made a 30 
> meg swap (for 8 megs ram), a 35 meg UNIX_SVR2 (or something) partition, a 
> 5 meg mac partition, and the rest was a Root&Usr partition.
> 
> I did not run mkfs on the UNIX_SVR2 partition before (or at least I don't 
> remember doing so).
> 
> I want to make the UNIX_SVR2 a swap partition, because now I have more 
> real RAM than swap (36 megs vs 30).  I tried deleting the UNIX_SVR2 
> partition and making it a Swap slice 1, but Silverlining wouldn't let me 
> do it without initializing the disk (something I do NOT want to do).
> 
> Any ideas on how I can make the 35 meg partition a swap partition, 
> without losing the data that's on the Root&Usr partition?  I don't care 
> about the other partitions that much.
> 
> Andy Sinesio
>