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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!msuinfo!pacific.cps.msu.edu!paoletti From: paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) Subject: swap space/partition (was Re: Questions about 386BSD) Message-ID: <1992Sep25.062432.20366@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Originator: paoletti@pacific.cps.msu.edu Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University References: <1992Sep22.180926.13496@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1992Sep22.222426.24672@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 06:24:32 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1992Sep22.222426.24672@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn) writes: >rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett) writes: > >> 1. Swap Space. Does 386BSD automatically set up swap space for you when >>you install it, or do you need to install the swap space yourself? >>Presently I only have 1 partition on my 120M hard disk, and the swapon -a >>command is in the /etc/rc file. From what I gather swapping will not >>be active, since there is no swap partition - or does 386BSD swap to a >>swap file in the root partition? Can it swap to a swap file or only to >>a partition? > >Only to a partition... How do you actually _get_ swap space installed? When doing the installation, it says 'xxxMB free' and asks how many to use for 386BSD. Should I tell it 10 less if I want 10MB of swap space? I've saved postings about changing the swap space, but was unable to understand them. Thanks, Dave Paoletti :)