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- From: dinda@cae.wisc.edu (Dinda Peter)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: (386BSD) increasing swap space - various questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.093137.24078@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:31:36 GMT
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- I've got 0.1 and X386 installed on a machine with 16 MB of RAM and now
- want to create/increase swapspace. The man page for swapon tells me that
- the "swapon -a" in my rc tries to swap to all volumes marked "sw" in
- /etc/fstab. Since I don't have any such volumes, I assume I'm running
- sans swapper. What's amusing, however, is of several other machines
- running BSDish Unixes (Sparcstation IPC, HP 700, HP Snake) with the same
- swapon statement in /etc/rc, only one (the snake) has an obligatory "sw"
- volume.
-
- Here's the intent: I have a 30 MB DOS partition left on my disk that I'd
- like to reset as a 386BSD swapping partition. I don't, however, have
- a clue as to how to go about it (Unix neophyte that I am). The unofficial
- FAQ talks about putting the swapper on a second disk, but not about creating
- a swapper partition. Any help would be appreciated.
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- Peter A. Dinda
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