Missing swap space?
Larry Beaulieu
beaulieu at gca.UUCP
Sat Aug 11 00:56:55 AEST 1990
In article <13722 at cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr at cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> >
> > Also, note that you can use any available partition for
> > your second swap space; use of partition b is not
> > a prerequisite.
>
> Subject to the concern that using the a or c partition for a swap area will
> probably overwrite the volume label, making access to other partitions on
> the drive "interesting".
1) Use of pabtition c means using the entire drive as a swap space, so
'access to other partitions' is irrelevant. I do this routinely
on dataless Sun 3/80's (root file system, page/swap reside locally)
to make use of the 2nd 104MB hard disk, as we have up to 32MB memory
on these systems, whose primary application is a memory pig.
2) As to use of partition a: as a swap space, I include the following
/etc/fstab off one of our Ultrix systems: (VAX 11/780 w/2 x RA81):
/def/ra0a:/:rw:1:1:ufs::
/dev/ra1a::sw:0:1:ufs::
/dev/ra1b:/tmp:bw:0:4:ufs::
/dev/ra1g:/src:ro:0:2:ufs::
/dev/ra0g:/var:rw:0:2:ufs::
/dev/ra0h:/usr:rw:1:3:ufs::
/dev/ra1h:/usr/users:rw:1:3:ufs::
As I recall this was done when that system was first upgraded to
run Ultrix 2.0; it has been used successfully ever since.
--
Larry Beaulieu The usual disclaimers apply.
GCA/Ultratech Corporation,
Andofer, MA
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