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From: brsmith@cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Swapping on non-b partitions
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.002004.19434@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 29 Sep 90 00:20:04 GMT
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iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:

>We have a need to add some swap space to our Symmetry system running
>Dynix 3.0.12.  We currently have an unused h partition on one of the
>disks that could be used for swap space, but I'm not sure if Dynix can
>use that partition for swap space.  I've looked thru the manuals and
>can't find any mention of it.  Does anyone know if Dynix can swap
>on a non-b partition?

Sure.  We desperately needed more swap space, so we turned the c
partition (all) of a SCSI drive (yea, SLOW) into swap space.

When you specify swap paritions in the config file for your kernel
(/usr/sys/conf/<whatever>), if you say just "zd0" or "sd1", config
assumes the b partition.  Just specify the parition you want to swap
on, and it should work.  I.E., we have:

## kernels to configure ##
config dynix_zd root on zd0a swap on zd0 and zd1 and zd2 and sd1c

Feel free to ask me if you have any problems.  (I'm not saying I can
fix them... :-)

Brian
brsmith@cs.umn.edu