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From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Embedded FreeBSD
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 12:54:40 -0400
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Nathan V. Patwardhan wrote:
> 
> If I'm correct, you don't have to make a swap partition but can
> use /tmp (for example) as your swap space.  I think this is in the
> handbook, where certain things are outlined to do this (including the
> lines that go into /etc/fstab).  Once again, you'll have to read the
> docs.
> 

I think you have it backward, you can map /tmp to VM (uses the swap
partition). Not of use to the original poster.

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