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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!relay.philips.nl!cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl!bashful.isp.cft.philips.nl!rooij From: rooij@bashful.isp.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij) Subject: Re: Swapinfo Message-ID: <1993Aug4.073408.27501@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> Sender: news@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl (USENET News System) Organization: Philips Communications & Processing Services, Eindhoven References: <23nbdp$rs8@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 07:34:08 GMT Lines: 30 altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang) writes: >Hi. I'm wondering why I can't get my second swap partition to function. I've >configured my kernel like so: >config "386bsd" root on wd0 swap on sd0 and wd0 >but when I do a swapinfo, i get: >Device 512-blks Used Available Capacity >/dev/sd0b 20160 10240 9920 51% >/dev/wd0b 20144 *** not available for swapping *** >Any ideas? >ps. wd0b, and sd0b are my swap partitions. You should put a line like: sd0b swap sw in your fstab file, see man 5 fstab. After that, either reboot the system or run swapon -a as superuser. >Thanx...alex... >-- >Alex Tang -- ALTITUDE@UMICH.EDU...USERW00Y@UMICHUM.BITNET > U of M, SNRE: Student and Computer Consultant II > ITD/CSS Consultant and...General Fun Loving Guy :) -Guido