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- From: george@wixer.cactus.org (George Wenzel)
- Subject: Re: ISC 2.2 (Sys V Rel 3.2) Adding Swap?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.235250.11604@wixer.cactus.org>
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- References: <1dbrn2INN9ch@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <BxAp6y.4Mr@maxed.amg.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 23:52:50 GMT
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- In article <BxAp6y.4Mr@maxed.amg.com> ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore) writes:
- >In article <1dbrn2INN9ch@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> stlouis@unixg.ubc.ca (Phill St. Louis) writes:
- >>I have read the manual and the 386 FAQ, and my question was not answered, so...
- >>
- >>When adding a second disk to an ISC Sys V Rel. 3.2 machine, in the partitioning,
- >>the screen comes up with a partition for swap. Does this work for adding
- >>extra swap? It seems too simple to believe. I have previously added disks
- >>to a Sun and the documentation for SunOs states very clearly how to do it,
- >>but the ISC docs are lacking in info about this stuff.
- >>
- >
- >It works. When you're done, type `swap -l` and see what you get.
-
- Almost but not quite. Read the man-page for swap. Simply creating the
- partition does not add it to the swap space... there is a swap command you
- need to execute, and put in your rc3.d somewhere.
-
- The command is "swap -a /dev/dsk/1s1 0 123456"... where /dev/dsk/1s1 is the
- device, 0 is the starting block, and 123456 is the length.
-
- If you look in /etc/partitions for the swap areas, you can find the above
- numbers for the device (the first digit is the drive number, than an s,
- then one more digit indicating the partition number).
-
- Be sure to get the length correct... swap won't check, so you could trash
- something.
-
- George
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