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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!wupost!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!uchinews!machine!chinet!randy From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: adding another swap partition Message-ID: <1992Jul22.142107.10000@chinet.chi.il.us> Date: 22 Jul 92 14:21:07 GMT References: <1992Jul21.120540.14336@chinet.chi.il.us> <14inptINN564@agate.berkeley.edu> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX Lines: 21 In article <14inptINN564@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes: >To add swap space, the device needs to be compiled into the kernel >in advance, even if you don't plan to use it. It reserves space in >it's swap space map for this (so eventually it can interleave them). Ok, that did it. Thanks. I am now able to have the swap partition on the second drive added with swapon. (at least the command completes with no errors. Any way to actually see if the system knows about the second swap partition?) in /sys/compile/YOUR_SYSTEM_NAME/swap386bsd.c, duplicate the makedev(0,1) line in the swdevt struct and change the 1 to a 9. Thanks, Bill. -- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds! Who is this dog meat who stands before me now? That's the biz, sweetheart. Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us