Question
Resizing / Growing Swap Partition on FreeBSD Fresh Install / Droplet
- Posted on October 11, 2020
- FreeBSD
Asked by MohammedAbuObaid
Hey everyone,
I wonder if anyone can help grow my “Swap” partition on a FreeBSD fresh install / droplet
DigitalOcean’s FreeBSD standard image comes with 2GB Swap partition pre-installed, and I need to grow it to twice as much the memory of the droplet VM
Will appreciate your input…
Thanks!
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You can use this method to add more swap: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/adding-swap-space.html
If you are using ZFS: https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS#ZFS_Swap_Volume
Just make sure to delete any snapshots of the swap dataset if they are not needed.