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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30 From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Another 0.1 success Message-ID: <1992Jul21.125314.8641@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> Date: 21 Jul 92 12:53:14 GMT References: <1992Jul20.140617.17787@usl.edu> <1992Jul20.171559.22562@cunews.carleton.ca> Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command Lines: 33 In article <1992Jul20.171559.22562@cunews.carleton.ca> ebx@scs.carleton.ca writes: >In article 17787@usl.edu, pml@cacs.usl.edu (Patrick M. Landry) writes: > >> ... >>I have one newbie question. Since the install only creates >>one partition by default where does the system do swapping? >> ... > >Another one with the same question. > >I noticed that du reported a smaller file system capicity than the space >I left to 386bsd. Is that implying those MBs going to swapping? Since I >could see only one partition, if any swapping, it must be file swapping or >in an invisible partition. Am I right? > >I didn't see any 'sw' in /etc/fstab neither. > By default, the install procedure creates a 10000 sec (5Mb) wd0b partition. This can be seen with a disklabel -r wd0. To use the swap device, add the following line to /etc/fstab: /dev/wd0b / swap sw It should be used automaticly at bootime or you can activate it with "swapon -a". Mike -- LCDR Mike Dobson, Sys Admin for | Internet: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | UUCP: ...uunet!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30 AT&T 3B2/600G Sys V R 3.2.3 | BITNET: dobson@usuhsb or nrd0mxd@vmnmdsc WIN/TCP for 3B2 R3.2 | MCI-Mail: 377-2719 or 0003772719@mcimail.com