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- From: tonse@csa1.lbl.gov (Shaheen R Tonse (510)-486-6349)
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- Subject: Swap area on Dec5000
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 21:21 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Hello, recently I put in a new disk on my Dec5000, and partitioned it the
- following way, so that there is some swap space (70560 blocks) in the b
- partition. (This information is done with chpt, and is identical to what I have
- in /etc/disktab)
-
- chpt -q /dev/rrz1a gives:
- Current partition table:
- partition bottom top size overlap
- a 0 25199 25200 c,d,e,f
- b 25200 95759 70560 c
- c 0 1998359 1998360 a,b,d,e,f,g,h
- d 0 0 0 a,c,e,f
- e 0 0 0 a,c,d,f
- f 0 0 0 a,c,d,e
- g 95760 1047059 951300 c
- h 1047060 1998359 951300 c
-
- I already had a 131072 block swap area on the b partition of the existing old
- disk.
-
- chpt -q /dev/rrz0a gives:
- Current partition table:
- partition bottom top size overlap
- a 0 32767 32768 c
- b 32768 163839 131072 c
- c 0 1299173 1299174 a,b,d,e,f,g,h
- d 163840 456369 292530 c,g
- e 456370 748899 292530 c,g,h
- f 748900 1299173 550274 c,h
- g 163840 731505 567666 c,d,e
- h 731506 1299173 567668 c,e,f
-
- A colleague tells me that it is useless to just make new b partitions and
- expect the system to know that they are available for swap area, unless one
- somehow re-compiles this information into the kernel. Is this true, and if so,
- is it "easy" to do?
- Regards, S.Tonse.
-