Puzzled about swap partition

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From: Peter Fieschko
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 00:00

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My inexperience with Sun and SPARCstations will show here but I've got 2 machines
that do not have a raw partition allocated for swap space. I.e., when I look at /etc/fstab there's no entry with swap in it (in fact there's no b partition in 
there and no b partition with a df). But when the machine boots it reports swap and dump on sd0b. There's an entry in /etc/rc turning swapon for /tmp (which is on sd0a). But why does the machine report swap and dump on a b partition?

Thanks,
Pete Fieschko

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From: Peter Fieschko <75453.2240@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Puzzled about swap partition
Date: 1995/11/12
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