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From: wkt@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Subject: Re: swapinfo
Message-ID: <1993Aug30.042814.16978@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
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References: <CCDKzy.Gn@info.bris.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 04:28:14 GMT
In article <CCDKzy.Gn@info.bris.ac.uk>, hedley@kipa (Deadly Hedley) writes:
|> Anyone know where I can get swapinfo from? I have checked various source
|> trees and couldn't find it...
Try minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au:
% telnet minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
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bsdnews> grep swapinfo|Swapinfo
19151) Swapinfo ~ 20 (Alex Tang)
19177) Swapinfo ~ 27 (Shawn M Carey)
19155) Swapinfo ~ 30 (Guido van Rooij)
19219) Swapinfo ~ 33 (Jan-Oliver Neumann)
12302) [source] swapinfo -- swap information reporter ~ 430 (Kevin Lahey)
You can either read 12302, or ftp it from minnie :-)
Cheers,
Warren
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Subject: Re: Can I put the swap partition on a second HD?
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From: haley@husc8.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
Date: 28 Aug 93 21:15:15 GMT
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D. Jay Newman <dn5@psu.edu> writes:
>I was thinking that it might make more sense to put the swap partition on
>a second hard-disk, for either SCSI or IDE. Is this possible?
Yep it sure is, and exactly how is detailed in the FAQ in part 2.
However, recovering that partition on your first drive might be
fraught with peril (or might not) as it will require changing your
existing (and therefore hopefully *working*) disklabel.
I would suggest something like this:
1. Prepare your second drive. remember that partition "b" is your swap
area. It can be the whole disk if you desire, just be sure and include
c & d as well, cause I'm pretty sure programs and the kernel depend on
that information being there. See the FAQ for details on that.
2. Make a new kernel, with both your old swap *and* the new one
enabled. Install the new kernel (saving the old one, of course) and
reboot. Login and do something that should guarantee actually USING
the second swap area. I suggest perhaps a bunch of emacs sessions, or
whatever else that should load the memory.
If all appears wunnerful, then...
3. Make another new kernel with the first swap disabled.
4. Edit the disklabel for your primary drive. (I'll add at this point
that I have no idea if the system will let you, you might have to boot
up the system with a Fix-It disk, therefore adding to the suspense).
Eliminate the "b" partition, and rename it to something else e or f,
whatevers next and not "b"
NOTE: DON"T CHANGE THE NUMBERS! This could lead to the sudden and
sadly explicable demise of your operating system, with the added bonus
of several hours of boring reinstallation, to find yourself back where
you were before you started this saga.
Newfs your new partition, and add it to the mount table. You could
even do what one friend suggested, leave it off of the mount tables,
and mount it inside /root manually, for a bit of security by
obscurity.
Have fun, and remember to keep your prayer ribbon-connector handy for
the rebuilds...
--
If you love your fun...
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