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Add more swap space to Free BSD

Is it possible on a running machine without a reboot ? I think an older Windows server I used needed a reboot afterwards.
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You can type this comands

create image needed to use with dd comand

then mkswap filename

then swapon filename

if you need this file for evrytime is up you must edit /etc/fstab and add address file on swap

Response by:
mohamad_kian
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Try this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap1 bs=1M count=10

mkswap /tmp/swap1

swapon /tmp/swap1

then execute "swapon -s" and see result

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jalal
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