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From: mds@ic.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Mark D. Spiller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: swap problems
Date: 29 Jun 1994 01:15:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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Hi -

I am trying to add swap space to my system...
I thought that I could take an existing partition, split
it into two smaller partitions, and then use one of them
(sd0f) as an additional swap partition.  

However, things have not gone as smoothly as I would have
liked...  I modified /etc/fstab to be swap 
(/dev/sd0f       none    swap    sw 0 0 )
and changed the disklabel on drive sd0 to also be swap,
similarly to the b partition.

However, although I cannot find in the man pages/sysadmin
book anything additional that I need to do, the swapon -a
returns an error,
swapon: /dev/sd0f: device not configured

If anyone would happen to know what the problem is, I would
really appreciate their letting me know!

Thanks,
Mark D. Spiller