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From: ian@nmsu.edu (Ian Logan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: no mkswap? What kind of silliness is this?
Date: 8 Oct 1995 21:48:48 GMT
Organization: New Mexico State University
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Joe Beiter (jwb@wilbur.hargray.com) wrote:

: I want to increase my swap from 20MB to 60MBs. I have plenty of room at 
: the end of the disk. I used fdisk to make it larger...

: now.... how do I turn it on?!?
Take a look at the swapon(8) command.  That should get you started :)
	ian