Arg: I get to answer my own question.

Apparently, netbsd dosen't mind you messing with disklabels on a 'hot' 
disk. I just went in and edited the swap partition down to 48 megs, saved 
and then did a swapon -a /dev/sd0b. It worked!

On Tru64, you can't ever 'save' an edited disklabel except to the 
on-disk-copy, which won't be read till the next reboot. :( I'd hate to 
reboot this.

But meanwhile, I think I ran out of ram-- the machine core dumped and now 
vmstat gives me:

dillera@z50:~>$ vmstat 2
vmstat: invalid _disk_count -2145399636.

I've never seen that before.

-andy


--On Wednesday, February 06, 2002 12:11 AM -0500 Andrew Diller 
<dillera@sudanacid.com> wrote:

> How about adding files as secondary swap? I don't see it in the man page.
> I guess netbsd dosen't support that.
>
> I'm going to try and make swap partition smaller. Perhaps the obvious the
> truth-- it dosen't have enuff ram to create all those pages for such a
> large amount of swap space.
>
> -andy