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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!werple.apana.org.au!hal9000!apanix!apanix!not-for-mail From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Can I put the swap partition on a second HD? Date: 2 Sep 1993 19:17:38 +1030 Organization: APANIX Public Access Unix, Australia, +61-8-373-5485 (3 lines) Lines: 25 Message-ID: <264bva$r1c@olivaw.apanix.apana.org.au> References: <25o1n4$gmr@genesis.ait.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: olivaw.apanix.apana.org.au 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? It certainly is possible, I have two 40MB IDE drives in my system, each having 5mb swap partitions. They are labled as such in /etc/fstab like: /dev/wd0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/wd0b none swap sw 2 /dev/wd1a /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/wd1b none swap sw 2 and then in /etc/rc the line 'swapon -a' enables those partitions as swap. I also have my swap partitions defined in my kernel config file, under the heading: config "386bsd" root on wd0 swap on wd0 and wd1 Cheers Leigh