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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!qwerty!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: swap space Message-ID: <1oa0qf$j6a@Germany.EU.net> Date: 18 Mar 93 14:26:23 GMT References: <1o2qb4$2gr@woody.apana.org.au> <C4360q.n43@veda.is> Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net In article <C4360q.n43@veda.is>, adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes: |> 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. Question. Suppose I have wd0 and wd1, usually booting off wd0 (surprise, surprise). Suppose the config entry is "root on wd0 swap on wd1 and on wd0" (note that my config is wd0 first at the moment, then wd1). Does that mean the machine would start paging/swapping on wd1 *regardless* of whether or not swapon() has been issued ? What happens if I unplug wd1 and boot the machine ? :-( I don't think I like this behaviour. -Bernard