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- From: danno@css.itd.umich.edu (Daniel T. Pritts)
- Subject: Re: next disks and swapfiles
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.005309.18746@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
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- Organization: University of Michigan
- References: <1992Aug18.162747.1@ccsua.ctstateu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:53:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.162747.1@ccsua.ctstateu.edu>
- rutherford@ccsua.ctstateu.edu writes:
- > How does the next maintain swap files? There is no entry in fstab
- for it
- > (or for my second hard drive, and internal 105 quantum). There is
- an entry
- > for my boot drive. I am assuming that the internal drive is mounted
- > automatically by a non-standard method. I have seen the swapfile
- in
- > /private/vm, and have wondered if it is possible to either
- physically
- > relocate it to the internal drive or to use a symbolic link
- instead.
- >
- > I would also like to override whatever automounting is taking place
- > and make sure that on boot up the internal (non-boot drive) is
- mounted
- > automatically.
-
- Put entries in /etc/fstab for both disks, this will cause them to be
- mounted automatically at boot time, otherwise the next
- autodiskmounter will mount them when you try to access things on
- them.
-
- Look at the man page for mach_swapon for info on allocation of the
- swapfile.
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