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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!psinntp!newstand.syr.edu!rodan.acs.syr.EDU!smcarey From: smcarey@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Shawn M Carey) Subject: Re: Swapinfo Message-ID: <1993Aug4.191234.16542@newstand.syr.edu> Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY References: <23nbdp$rs8@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 19:12:34 EDT Lines: 27 In article <23nbdp$rs8@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang) writes: >Hi. I'm wondering why I can't get my second swap partition to function. I've >configured my kernel like so: >config "386bsd" root on wd0 swap on sd0 and wd0 > > >but when I do a swapinfo, i get: > >Device 512-blks Used Available Capacity >/dev/sd0b 20160 10240 9920 51% >/dev/wd0b 20144 *** not available for swapping *** > >Any ideas? > >ps. wd0b, and sd0b are my swap partitions. > Do you have the second partition (wd0b) listed in your /etc/fstab as swap? eg. /dev/wd0b none swap sw This will cause swapon -a to catch it, otherwise you'll have to add the partition manually with "swapon /dev/wd0b". Hope this helps. -Shawn Carey