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- From: brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca (Brad Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: next disks and swapfiles
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.021153.6966@raven.uucp>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 02:11:53 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.162747.1@ccsua.ctstateu.edu>
- Sender: brad@raven.uucp (Brad Nelson)
- Lines: 21
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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.
-
- do 'man mach_swapon'.
-
- do 'head -60 /etc/rc | tail -10' (look for line with 'mach_swapon')
-
- do 'cat /etc/swaptab'
-
- That oughta give you some ideas!
-
- You can even have multiple swapfiles, so they can chew ALL of
- your disk space. :-)
-
- -Brad brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
-