Missing swap space?
Jaye Mathisen
mathisen at dali.cs.montana.edu
Mon Aug 13 03:47:59 AEST 1990
In article <446 at gca.UUCP> beaulieu at gca.UUCP (Larry Beaulieu) writes:
|In article <13722 at cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr at cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
|> >
|> > Also, note that you can use any available partition for
|> > your second swap space; use of partition b is not
|> > a prerequisite.
|>
|> Subject to the concern that using the a or c partition for a swap area will
|> probably overwrite the volume label, making access to other partitions on
|> the drive "interesting".
|
| 1) Use of partition c means using the entire drive as a swap space, so
| 'access to other partitions' is irrelevant. I do this routinely
| on dataless Sun 3/80's (root file system, page/swap reside locally)
Well, it may work that way on Sun's, but it looks like under Ultrix it don't.
I added an RZ56 as a swap disk, and tried to swap on partition c, and it
hung in the swapon command... The same thing happened on a mVII, under Ultrix
3.1... When I tried to swap on partition a, I was then unable to access
the rest of the partitions.
| 2) As to use of partition a: as a swap space, I include the following
| /etc/fstab off one of our Ultrix systems: (VAX 11/780 w/2 x RA81):
|
| /dev/ra0a:/:rw:1:1:ufs::
| /dev/ra1a::sw:0:1:ufs::
I think something changes between Ultrix 2.0, and 3.0 as to where information
about the disks is stored.
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