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- From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Another 0.1 success
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.125314.8641@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 12:53:14 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.140617.17787@usl.edu> <1992Jul20.171559.22562@cunews.carleton.ca>
- Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Jul20.171559.22562@cunews.carleton.ca> ebx@scs.carleton.ca writes:
- >In article 17787@usl.edu, pml@cacs.usl.edu (Patrick M. Landry) writes:
- >
- >> ...
- >>I have one newbie question. Since the install only creates
- >>one partition by default where does the system do swapping?
- >> ...
- >
- >Another one with the same question.
- >
- >I noticed that du reported a smaller file system capicity than the space
- >I left to 386bsd. Is that implying those MBs going to swapping? Since I
- >could see only one partition, if any swapping, it must be file swapping or
- >in an invisible partition. Am I right?
- >
- >I didn't see any 'sw' in /etc/fstab neither.
- >
- By default, the install procedure creates a 10000 sec (5Mb) wd0b partition.
- This can be seen with a disklabel -r wd0. To use the swap device, add the
- following line to /etc/fstab:
-
- /dev/wd0b / swap sw
-
- It should be used automaticly at bootime or you can activate it with
- "swapon -a".
-
- Mike
-
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