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From: wright@mdcbbs.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Missing swap space?
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.211028.997@mdcbbs.com>
Date: 16 Aug 90 04:10:28 GMT
References: <1990Aug8.143813.16876@cs.wayne.edu> <444@gca.UUCP> <13722@cbmvax.commodore.com>
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In article <13722@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> In article <444@gca.UUCP> beaulieu@gca.UUCP (Larry Beaulieu) writes:
>> 
>> 	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".
> 
  This is correct. Althought, if you would like to repartion your disk to
utilize more of the "a" partition as swap, you could use chpt to trim "a" 
down to about 1000 blocks. This would allow for the superblock. Then the 
rest can be added into "b" partition. This would then leave "g" for data.

If you were to use the "c" partition (the entire disk) as swap, you would not
have to worry about this. Since "c" is the entire disk and no other partitions
would be used. This is, of course, assuming you are using the default disk
partitioning.

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