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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: swapon: /dev/sd2b: device not configured
Date: 24 Apr 1995 13:20:39 +0200
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Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
>j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
>
>[ ... swap issues ... ]
>
...
>] Rebuild your kernel, and add a ``and sd2'' clause in the ``kernel''
>] line of the config file, right after the other swap areas that are
>] mentioned there.
>
...
>It's stupid to have to tell the kernel something that it could
>figure out from the disk label itself without being told and with
>no discernable loss of speed (ie: you don't have a 'b' slice?
>Well, then I won't swap there...).
Indeed. Nobody volunteered so far to change it. :-)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)