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- From: kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp)
- Subject: Re: quick q
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.182538.10621@black.toppoint.de>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:25:38 GMT
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- In <1993Jan6.080443.10051@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
- >To have Linux actually use the swap space, include the command
- >'swapon <your swap partition>' in either /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local.
- >Then, when you boot, you will see a message indicating that linux
- >setup 10MB of swap.
-
- Actually there is a swapon -a command in the standard SLS rc.
- You put your swap partition into /etc/fstab just like your other
- partitions and swapon will find and use it automatically.
-
- Kristian
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