[SunHELP] Increasing Swap Space

Bob Ruddy sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Mon Jun 11 15:52:59 CDT 2001


If you are using a volume manager such as Disk Suite or Veritas you can 
grow the volume then using /usr/lib/fs/ufs/mkfs you can grow the file 
system on the fly. 

For swap partitions though I do not know of a way unless you add moer swap 
partitions or files as you mentioned.

Bob

> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, pat boyd wrote:
> 
> | Is there a tool that allows for increasing the size of the swap
> partition | without loosing data.
> 
> You cannot increase the size of the swap partition on the fly, or any
> normal partition for that matter. But if you need more swap, you can
> use swap files. See the 'swap' command man page.
> 
> /dale
> 
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