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- Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!wupost!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!wvnvm!bryan
- Date: Friday, 6 Nov 1992 13:47:53 EST
- From: Jerry Bryan <BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
- Message-ID: <92311.134753BRYAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Reallocate SWAPPER.DAT
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- This has been mentioned before, but shortly after installing the
- Service Pack I started getting dire warnings from OS/2 about running
- out of disk space. I checked, and I was under 3 meg, maybe close
- to 2. Therefore, based on some warnings from the net, I shutdown,
- booted from diskette, deleted SWAPPER.DAT, and ran CHKDSK C: /F:3.
- Since then, I have had about 15 meg free, without changing anything else.
- I could kick myself that I did not check the size of SWAPPER.DAT
- before I deleted it. I do not know how much of the space gain was
- from deleting SWAPPER.DAT and how much was from CHKDSK.
-
- In case it matters, I did have the fix on for SWAPPER.DAT growing
- long before I installed the service pack. Also, I am not aware of
- any hard crashes I have had where I should have run CHKDSK and didn't.
- Besides which, I am set up to run CHKDSK automatically out of CONFIG.SYS
- as described in the FAQ.
-
- It therefore seems to me to be a good idea that anybody who installs
- the service pack should look at SWAPPER.DAT and their free
- disk space very carefully. It couldn't hurt just to close your eyes,
- delete SWAPPER.DAT, and run CHKDSK, whether you need to or not.
-