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- From: greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Greve)
- Subject: Change drive of Swapper.dat (was Re: OS/2 2.1?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.125414.25174@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
- Summary: Put it to another drive!
- Sender: usenet@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de
- Organization: University of Bonn, phys. Chemistry
- References: <1992Dec14.092551.9445@actrix.gen.nz> <c01RVB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:54:14 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- In article <c01RVB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
- [...]
- >to be EXTRA cautious that my Swapper file doesnt grow too large. I had to
- >totally reinstall my entire system and reformat my hard drive (when I had it
- >all on one partition so I lost everthing!) because swapper ran out of space
- >and the whole system came down hard.
- [...]
- Why don't you just put the swapper.dat to another drive/partition? You
- can change the swappath environment variable in config.sys.
- --
- - Thomas
-
- greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de
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