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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: more on unix swap space problem
Keywords: swap fstab unix
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Date: 2 May 89 18:46:58 GMT
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In article <171@larry.sal.wisc.edu> jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu
(Jeffrey W Percival) wrote:
[ "not enough core" to run small utilities ]

>One reply mentioned the "swap" entry in fstab, and sure enough,
>we don't have such an entry.

>The Question:  is the :sw: entry in fstab truly needed, or is
                                           ^^^^^
>the swap info compiled into the kernel?

	Let's not get overly metaphysical here.  When we put the
	lines into the file, the problem went away.

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