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From: willey@purdue.edu (Mark Willey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help!  Swap config.
Date: 3 Dec 1996 06:45:09 GMT
Organization: Purdue University
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Richard Patrick Thomasson (spaceman@Glue.umd.edu) wrote:
: I have the following line in /etc/fstab to try to set up my swap space:
: 
: /dev/sd2b /swap swap sw 0 0
: 
: I am wondering if this is the incorrect format for the swap entry (the man
: page wasn't very helpful), or if maybe it is impossible to have swap on a
: disk other than the one that the root partition is on.  My first disk is one

Make sure your kernel is configured for the correct swap device...

Mark