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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.
> 
> I would also like to override whatever automounting is taking place
> and make sure that on boot up the internal (non-boot drive) is  
mounted
> automatically.

Put entries in /etc/fstab for both disks, this will cause them to be  
mounted automatically at boot time, otherwise the next  
autodiskmounter will mount them when you try to access things on
them.

Look at the man page for mach_swapon for info on allocation of the  
swapfile.
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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

In article <1992Aug19.021153.6966@raven.uucp> brad%raven@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca (Brad Nelson) writes:
>    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!

a couple of other pointers are:
  NeXTAnswers OS.355
  /etc/rc.swap
  man swaptab
  man checkswap

but is the swapfile contiguous in the default setup created by BuildDisk?
(and so by using a faster disk you still may do worse due to increased seeking?)
if so, is there a way to create a contiguous swapfile?

or is the only way to do this to create a separate partition?

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