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From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Lack of core & swap space causing problems
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Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 15:00:49 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 25 15:00:49 1987
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In article <9863@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>Secondly, you may swap on more partitions than one. In both instances the
>key is to specify where to swap in the config file.
	....
>and /etc/fstab controls which ones are actually used.

It should probably also be mentioned that additional swap partitions
configured into the kernel and listed in /etc/fstab aren't used until
a "swapon -a" command is issued, usually in /etc/rc.local.  The
original posting was about an Ultrix system, and while the default
Ultrix rc.local includes the swapon command, not all systems do.
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Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa              
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