Adding Swap Space in FreeBSD

While it shouldn't occur too frequently, it is likely at some point as a
sysadmin, you will need to add additional swap space to a box.  At that
time, your options will be to use a free disk partition with suitable
space or to create a swapfile on an existing filesystem.  The following

Determining Partition Tables

This tip deals somewhat with Solaris, though moreso with FreeBSD.
On a Solaris host, to quickly determine how a hard disk may be carved up,
one can simply run prtvtoc against the device: