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From: krostrin@cats.ucsc.edu (Ken Ostrin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Swapping problems
Date: 3 Oct 1993 20:06:51 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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I seem to be having problems with the swapon command.  Although it it turned on,
it is not specifying a specific device, and the machine is crashing.  If I take
out the swapon line from etc/rc the machine will work properly, however I am
then limited in memory.  

Would someone please tell me if/what device I need to add to the fstab file to
notify swapon that a swap disk is on the system?  Is there anyplace I could look
to find that info, or am I just missing something obvious.

Ken