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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zazen!doug.cae.wisc.edu!dinda From: dinda@cae.wisc.edu (Dinda Peter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: (386BSD) increasing swap space - various questions Message-ID: <1992Aug27.093137.24078@doug.cae.wisc.edu> Date: 27 Aug 92 14:31:36 GMT Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering Lines: 18 I've got 0.1 and X386 installed on a machine with 16 MB of RAM and now want to create/increase swapspace. The man page for swapon tells me that the "swapon -a" in my rc tries to swap to all volumes marked "sw" in /etc/fstab. Since I don't have any such volumes, I assume I'm running sans swapper. What's amusing, however, is of several other machines running BSDish Unixes (Sparcstation IPC, HP 700, HP Snake) with the same swapon statement in /etc/rc, only one (the snake) has an obligatory "sw" volume. Here's the intent: I have a 30 MB DOS partition left on my disk that I'd like to reset as a 386BSD swapping partition. I don't, however, have a clue as to how to go about it (Unix neophyte that I am). The unofficial FAQ talks about putting the swapper on a second disk, but not about creating a swapper partition. Any help would be appreciated. Peter A. Dinda