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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: swap space
Message-ID: <C4360q.n43@veda.is>
Date: 18 Mar 93 13:12:26 GMT
References: <1o2qb4$2gr@woody.apana.org.au>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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root@woody.apana.org.au (Ernie Elu) writes:

>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.

That is the swap space. Normally it would be annotated as swap.

>There is no entry in fstab appart form the wd0a root partition.

Primary swap partition is enabled on the first device found which is
configured in the kernel as swap space. Therefore it does not have to
be in fstab. You might like to include it in fstab as a comment line.

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Adam David (adam@veda.is)