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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!sylvester.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [question] How to put swap in its own hard partition? Date: 28 Feb 1994 03:45:45 -0600 Organization: The University of Texas - Austin Lines: 13 Message-ID: <2kseg9$4p4@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sylvester.cc.utexas.edu I'd like to use a third, "hard" partition as a swap partition under Unix, but I'd also like to be able to format it and use it as temporary storage under MS-DOS as well (not concurrently!). Is it possible to use a partition which occurs before the NetBSD partition as the swap area? Is it safe to have the disklabel point "out" of the current hard partition? Will disklabel require that I extend "c" to cover the new partition? Will disklabel write the label to the beginning of the "a" partition (and therefore the NetBSD hard partition (like it should)), and not the beginning of the "c" partition? -- Protect our endangered bandwidth - reply by email. NO BIG SIGS! VaX#n8 vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu - Don't blame me if the finger daemon is down