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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Embedded FreeBSD Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 12:54:40 -0400 Organization: University of the Virgin Islands Lines: 17 Message-ID: <32B97350.446B9B3D@jnet.vi> References: <32B744C0.2DA9@wdc.net> <597m7n$abh@fridge-nf0.shore.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: backen.uvi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32808 Nathan V. Patwardhan wrote: > > If I'm correct, you don't have to make a swap partition but can > use /tmp (for example) as your swap space. I think this is in the > handbook, where certain things are outlined to do this (including the > lines that go into /etc/fstab). Once again, you'll have to read the > docs. > I think you have it backward, you can map /tmp to VM (uses the swap partition). Not of use to the original poster. -- | John Lucas jlucas@jnet.vi | | Information Technology NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.jnet.vi/jlucas.html |