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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: adding a swap device
Date: 5 Feb 1996 11:30:02 GMT
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wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider) writes:

> >is there a FAQ on creating a new swap area?
> 
> For swap files read the manual vnconfig(8).

..and disklabel(8).  You cannot swap onto an unlabelled disk.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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