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Article #10715Re: using maximum swap
From: Andrew Gerber
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1989 06:40
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1989 06:40
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>BTW, if you're intending to set up a second swap area on a new disk, >*don't* make it the first partition. Unlike regular filesystems, swap >doesn't care about the disk label in 0/0/0, and it will trash it.... I ran into the exact same problem when attempting to put dual swap partitions on our 4/110. After the "swapon" command, the entire disk (sd2) was unreadable. I had configured the swap partition as the first partition, and it had wiped the lablel. Luckily I had a printout of a dkinfo for that disk, rebuild the label with diag, and everything was OK. It's a good idea to keep a copy of the dkinfo's for all your disks around on paper, just in case. The solution is to set up the first partition containing only one cylinder, and then put your swap on sd2b. Andy Gerber
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: salt!pepper!gerber@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Gerber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: using maximum swap Message-ID: <8901262001.AA02307@pepper.baars.com> Date: 3 Feb 89 06:40:08 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 17 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 13:01:15 MST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 136, message 2 of 11