Re: Swapfile won't grow

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From: Heiko W.Rupp
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:11

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sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:

>#I own a mono station with an internal 105 meg disk.  I have dedicated the
>#as a swapdisk according to the instructions in NeXT Answers.  It  

>It seems that you have the hiwater mark set to 30M in the /etc/swaptab  
>file.  Remove the entry for hiwat=xxxxxx and then reboot.  You should then  
>be able to use all the disk for swapping.

No, if you have a disk labeled as 'swapdisk', you don't have to fool
around with /etc/swaptab. The information about the high water mark is
in this case in /etc/rc.swap
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