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From: jones@cs.montana.edu (Chris Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to get more useable VM?
Date: 18 Aug 1996 03:27:56 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, 59717
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Message-ID: <4v62js$jlr@netra.oscs.montana.edu>
References: <4u6ufm$vi@news.siemens.at> <4u7i1m$ktd@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> <4v2dub$f3u@news.whirlpool.com>
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In article <4v2dub$f3u@news.whirlpool.com>,
Doug Wegscheid <wegscd@whirlpool.com> wrote:
>>config netbsd swap on <disk0> and <disk1> [and vnd<whatever>]
>
>I have hit the man pages and the FAQ, and am not seeing the answer:
>how do you set up a vnd to page to a file (like my Windows swap file
>on my MSDOS filesystem)?
Use the vnconfig (vndconfig?) command. My NetBSD box just hit a power
spike, so I can't verify this, but I think it's:
vnconfig -c /cdrive/swapfile /dev/vnd0a
You'll need to do that every time you boot, so I put the command in my
rc.local, followed by
swapon /dev/vnd0a
And, of course, you also need the "netbsd ... swap on ... and vnd0a"
line in your kernel. I actually used vnd0b, since b is traditionally
swap, but I suppose it doesn't matter.
Chris
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