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- From: cyk@tos28.teradata.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: SwapFile.
- Keywords: /etc/fstab /private/vm/swapfile /etc/swaptab
- Message-ID: <776@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 00:29:55 GMT
- Sender: news@tdat.teradata.COM
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- Distribution: world
- Organization: ATT/NCR Teradata Business Unit
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- Originator: cyk@tos28
-
- Hi guys,
-
- I have been trying to designate the 240 MB internal drive, which
- is not my boot device, as to be the swap device without success. Can
- anybody give me some help? Thanks in advance.
-
- A little bit more detail about my hardware configuration and the
- unsuccessful attemp I tried are given in the following:
-
- 1) My NeXT is equipped with one 220 MB internal drive and
- one 520 MB external drive. The external drive has a SCSI
- ID of 0; and it's the boot device. The internal drive
- has a SCSI ID of 1; and it's mounted at "/local".
-
- 2) The internal drive currently does not contain any data
- other than a copy of the system software. It acts as a
- backup boot device in case the external drive fails.
-
- In order to better utilize the internal drive, I would
- like to put the swap file on it.
-
- 3) I made the following unsuccessful attempt:
-
- Step 1: My internal drive is mounted at /local.
-
- Step 2: I deleted /local/private/vm/swapfile.
-
- Step 3: I modified the /etc/swaptab file to
- contain a single entry looking like:
-
- /local/private/vm/swapfile .....
-
- Step 4: I rebooted the machine in verbose
- mode; and, observed a message like:
-
- mach_swapon: /local/private/vm/swapfile failed.
-
- Step 6: After the machine was up, I logged on
- and observed that /local/private/vm/swapfile
- was not created.
-
- Step 7: I backed out the change to /etc/swaptab,
- rebooted the machine in verbose mode and
- mach_swapon was successful.
-
-
- ------ Chi Ku
-
-