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From: grover@sed170.hac.com (Dean Grover (ird))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: swap space question
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Date: 27 Jan 89 17:12:11 GMT
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I have a SCSI disk with partition sd0b currently unused.  This partition
was 35 Mb of swap space on a Sun 3/50 SunOS 3.5.  The disk was moved onto
another system that doesn't need that space for swap.  Since that space is
no longer used, I plan to make a new filesystem on it and use it as a
regular partition.  If I do that, can I later use it for swap again ?  Is
anything necessary to enable the swap space to be used (other than
changing the swap partition in the kernel) ?

Thanks in advance.
Dean Grover
* Hughes Aircraft Company
* adgrover@hac2arpa.hac.com or
* grover@sed170.HAC.COM

[[ Nope.  There is nothing analagous to "newfs" for swap partitions.  Just
tell the kernel to swap on it (but don't try to mount it as a file system
at the same time!).  Note that this does not apply to /export/swap on a
4.0.x server.  --wnl ]]