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- From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Subject: Re: swap space for DEC 5000/2xx
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.194110.5671@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- Sender: alan@nabeth (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <Bx7nx6.3sy@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 19:41:10 GMT
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- In article <Bx7nx6.3sy@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, purple@decwd.ece.uiuc.edu ( ) writes:
- >
- >
- >How do I get a swap file on a DEC box?
-
- You can't. As you note later ULTRIX only supports paging and swapping
- on block devices (or over the network in the diskless case).
-
- >On the DEC, I don't see an equivalent
- >to mkfile and the man pages are unclear about swap 'files'.
-
- Please use the Reader's Comments page to let the documentation
- group know about problems with the documentation. While the
- lack of documentation on "mkfile" is due to the lack of that
- command, the documentation on page/swap space configuration
- could be made more clear.
-
- >
- >Paul Hayes
- >Electromagnetics and Communication Laboratory
- >University of Illinois
- >
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- Alan Rollow alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
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