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- From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: adding another swap partition
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.142107.10000@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 14:21:07 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.120540.14336@chinet.chi.il.us> <14inptINN564@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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- In article <14inptINN564@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
- >To add swap space, the device needs to be compiled into the kernel
- >in advance, even if you don't plan to use it. It reserves space in
- >it's swap space map for this (so eventually it can interleave them).
-
- Ok, that did it. Thanks. I am now able to have the swap
- partition on the second drive added with swapon. (at least
- the command completes with no errors. Any way to actually
- see if the system knows about the second swap partition?)
-
- in /sys/compile/YOUR_SYSTEM_NAME/swap386bsd.c,
- duplicate the makedev(0,1) line in the swdevt struct
- and change the 1 to a 9.
-
- Thanks, Bill.
-
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- Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us
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