🚀 go-pugleaf

> In article <1992Nov14.220947.2367@eps.com> steve@eps.com writes:
> >How can I move the  swap file on another hard drive besides the
> >startup drive?  We have 2 drives in our NeXT Dimension system
> >and our startup drive is almost full.

First off, make sure the other hard drive (the one you're not booting off  
of) is listed in /etc/fstab.  Second, edit the entry in /etc/swaptab to  
point to the appropriate file on the second disk.  Make sure that this file  
(and all directories in the pathname of the file) are setup and permitted  
the same as /private/vm/swapfile.  Presumably you'd just have the same  
filename on the second disk.

If you have the man pages, check out:
	man swaptab

This is how a friend of mine had things set up, when he had two hard disks,  
both of which were bootable (one had the minimum system, one had the entire  
extended release, and both systems were setup to use the exact same file for  
their swapping).

cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) wrote, when
           answering the above:
> Here are my notes on how I did it recently.
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
> I finally figured how to get the swapfile out of the root file system.
> While working with somebody else's new Turbo Color Station, with the
> new ADB keyboard and everything.
> 
> So -- my approach is the following:  get swap off the root file system,
> thus freeing 16MB and also making lots of room for Mathematica to play.
> Put users on the external disk.  Put /usr/tmp on the external disk instead
> of soft-linked to /tmp.
> 
> Procedure:  (external disk is Dext, and is mkfs'd by now)
      [skipping over details of doing the same thing via
       symbolic links - gad]

This seems to me to be a little too tricky, and I don't see what advantage  
it buys you over just editting the swaptab file (which, after all, was  
designed for precisely this task).


--
Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA