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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!woody.apana.org.au!woody.apana.org.au!not-for-mail From: root@woody.apana.org.au (Ernie Elu) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: swap space Date: 15 Mar 1993 12:52:52 -0800 Organization: Woody - Public Access Unix - Melbourne Lines: 16 Message-ID: <1o2qb4$2gr@woody.apana.org.au> X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 I have a simple question regarding swap space. When you format a fresh drive and use the install command to partition it for all BSD, does it make any swap space ? I have noticed that when I do a disklabel -r wd0 it says I have 10000 blocks allocated to wd0b and it is marked as unused. There is no entry in fstab appart form the wd0a root partition. When I compile something large the disk seems to behave as if it is paging or swapping. What does it all mean ? - Ernie.