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From: cmaz514@ut-emx.uucp (Raghu Ramachandran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: HELP !!!!
Keywords: swapfile
Message-ID: <46488@ut-emx.uucp>
Date: 31 Mar 91 07:06:45 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas
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Last night I was in root removing files from the 105M hard disk to free up some
space.  I accidentaly double clicked on the icon for /private/vm/swapdisk.

This started up 'Edit', which then tried to open the swapfile.

Needless to say both the computer and I had a fit!

I forced the workspace to the front and loged out.  By the time the log out was
complete several minutes had elapsed.  When I logged back in, the swapfile had
exploded, and I only have 8.77MB free on the hard disk.  The swap file has a 
size reading of 27467776 (~26MB).  

Any help in reducing the size of the swapfile would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks 
Raghu