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- Subject: Re: Swap Space Kernel Param
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.130259.19396@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 13:02:59 GMT
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- In article <841@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
- >>Does anyone know what parameter he is taking about? And what value
- >>I should add to it?
- >
- >This is most certainly wrong... You simply need to use '/etc/swap -a'
- >to tell A/UX that you have more swap space on another disk... For example,
- >if you added swap space on SCSI #3 (on slice 1, which is the default):
- >
- > $ /etc/swap -a /dev/rdsk/c3d0s1
-
- It is also important to note here that listing your new swap slice in
- /etc/fstab will not cause it to be added to system swap space with
- each boot, this must be done explicitly with the swap -a command.
- I've found that a good place for it is at the end of the
- /etc/sysinitrc file.
-
- -Todd
-