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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
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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.