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Article #905Re: next disks and swapfiles
From: Brad Nelson
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:11
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:11
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In article <1992Aug18.162747.1@ccsua.ctstateu.edu> rutherford@ccsua.ctstateu.edu writes: > How does the next maintain swap files? There is no entry in fstab for it > (or for my second hard drive, and internal 105 quantum). There is an entry > for my boot drive. I am assuming that the internal drive is mounted > automatically by a non-standard method. I have seen the swapfile in > /private/vm, and have wondered if it is possible to either physically > relocate it to the internal drive or to use a symbolic link instead. do 'man mach_swapon'. do 'head -60 /etc/rc | tail -10' (look for line with 'mach_swapon') do 'cat /etc/swaptab' That oughta give you some ideas! You can even have multiple swapfiles, so they can chew ALL of your disk space. :-) -Brad brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!raven!brad From: brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca (Brad Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: next disks and swapfiles Message-ID: <1992Aug19.021153.6966@raven.uucp> Date: 19 Aug 92 02:11:53 GMT References: <1992Aug18.162747.1@ccsua.ctstateu.edu> Sender: brad@raven.uucp (Brad Nelson) Lines: 21