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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Missing swap space?
Message-ID: <13722@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 17:01:50 GMT
References: <1990Aug8.143813.16876@cs.wayne.edu> <444@gca.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@commodore.com (George Robbins)
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In article <444@gca.UUCP> beaulieu@gca.UUCP (Larry Beaulieu) writes:
> > to argdev.  Seems like rather a lot of space.  I wonder if I missed 
> > something when I configured the system for interleaved swap??
> 
> 
> 	The file /etc/rc by default already contains the swapon -a
> 	command.
> 
> 	Also, note that you can use any available partition for
> 	your second swap space; use of partition b is not
> 	a prerequisite.

Subject to the concern that using the a or c partition for a swap area will
probably overwrite the volume label, making access to other partitions on
the drive "interesting".

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