<![CDATA[Remove or Decrease Swap Space?]]>Hi Guys,

I have 20GB SSDs in my pfSense boxes and I noticed that disk space was being sucked up quickly. I installed the phpSysInfo package and it revealed that the "quick install" option allocated 16GB of that 20GB to swap space, I'm assuming since my boxes have 16GB of RAM in them.

Is there any way to reclaim this space without reinstalling the whole machine?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/52785/remove-or-decrease-swap-spaceRSS for NodeWed, 10 Jun 2026 15:09:09 GMTWed, 06 Feb 2013 23:07:09 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Remove or Decrease Swap Space? on Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:28:12 GMT]]>@webdawg:

Could you not resize it with gparted?

with tools along those lines it may be possible, I've never tried that with UFS file systems. May be faster to reinstall and restore.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/377923https://forum.netgate.com/post/377923Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:28:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remove or Decrease Swap Space? on Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:09:53 GMT]]>@cmb:

The base OS version we use doesn't support resizing partitions, you'd have to reinstall and restore.

Could you not resize it with gparted?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/377875https://forum.netgate.com/post/377875Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:09:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remove or Decrease Swap Space? on Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:11:58 GMT]]>@cmb:

The base OS version we use doesn't support resizing partitions, you'd have to reinstall and restore.

Thanks CMB. Luckily the backup and restore process is pretty much seamless.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/377496https://forum.netgate.com/post/377496Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:11:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remove or Decrease Swap Space? on Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:07:33 GMT]]>The base OS version we use doesn't support resizing partitions, you'd have to reinstall and restore.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/377495https://forum.netgate.com/post/377495Thu, 07 Feb 2013 02:07:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remove or Decrease Swap Space? on Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:57:09 GMT]]>@webdawg:

Swap uses FreeBSD's default, 2xRAM.  You should be able to change it.  Do not know how.  I know after you do it you would have to resize the root partition.

Thank you for your reply.

I am wondering if anyone knows how to decrease the swap partition and add the reclaimed space to the root.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/377492https://forum.netgate.com/post/377492Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:57:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Remove or Decrease Swap Space? on Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:19:18 GMT]]>Swap uses FreeBSD's default, 2xRAM.  You should be able to change it.  Do not know how.  I know after you do it you would have to resize the root partition.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/377477https://forum.netgate.com/post/377477Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:19:18 GMT