Is it possible to have 2 swap partitions?

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1 total messages Started by Mike McFaul Thu, 27 Jun 1991 20:22

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Author: Mike McFaul
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 20:22

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I've got an IPC running 4.1.1 rev b and I have an external disk (I had
a 386i with an internal 90Meg drive and a shoebox expansion unit). Well
I put my 90Meg into the shoebox and then decided to have 2 swap partitions,
one on my 207Meg drive (sd0) and one on my 90Meg (sd2). I know about swap
files but the 90 is so small (its all relative eh!) that I loose too much
to 'inode-overhead' when I build a file system for a swap file. I checked
out the man pages for '/usr/etc/config' and it mentions that I could have
2 swap partitions by using the line:

	config vmunix swap on sd0 swap on sd2

in my kernal configuration. Well I tried this and it always uses the second
swap specification. I've been checking out some files and it looks like
I'm only allowed to have 1 specification. Is this a bug in 'config' or a
bogus man page?

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