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Peter Fieschko <75453.2240@CompuServe.COM> asked:
>... 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. ... But why does the machine
>report swap and dump on a b partition?     

   Because it's built into the kernel to do so (on most systems diskful
systems).  What told the kernel it could do this was a line in the system's
config file such as:
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config  vmunix  swap generic
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The "swap generic" part says that the "b" partition on the disk you booted
from is available as swap space.  That way you can boot from any disk on
which you have UNIX code.
 -WBE