Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!uklirb!incas!zessel From: zessel@incas.informatik.uni-kl.de (Holger Zessel AG Nehmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: How to configure additional swap space? Message-ID: Date: 25 May 90 05:39:27 GMT References: <1990May24.220458.13891@evax.arl.utexas.edu> Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, W-Germany Lines: 37 bush@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Joe Bush) writes: |> We are running a Ultrix 3.1 on a uVAX 3900 with 32Mb |>of core, by the way... |> The general consensus seems to be that more swap space is |>called for. I am following those suggestions and configuring the |>additional swap space. This seemed like the logical first step since [...] |> I modified the following line to my /sys/conf/SYSTEM file and |>rebuilt the kernel: |> config vmunix ... swap on ra0b and ra1b and ra2b ... |> I added the following two lines to my /etc/fstab: |> /dev/ra1b::sw:0:0:ufs:: |> /dev/ra2b::sw:0:0:ufs:: |> |> Now heres the problem: I then attempted to execute the |> # swapon -a |> Adding /dev/ra1b as swap device |> /dev/ra1b: No such device |> Adding /dev/ra2b as swap device |> /dev/ra2b: No such device hmmm. May be you should try the line *I* inserted for the same purpose: /dev/ra1b::sw::::: May be the ufs type irritates the kernel. I don't know how this line is parsed. |> - Joe Holger ---------------------------------------------------------------- Holger Zessel, uucp: ...!uunet!unido!uklirb!incas!zessel or zessel@informatik.uni-kl.de or zessel%informatik.uni-kl.de@relay.cs.net (from usa) Fachbereich Informatik, SFB124-D1 Universitaet Kaiserslautern, West-Germany