From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 26 19:02:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29533 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:02:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29528 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 19:02:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA12384; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:30:52 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA23010; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:30:28 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981027133028.N20920@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:30:28 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "[Oleg N.Kolesnikov]" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q]: How can I use existing MSDOS partition as a swap ? References: <199810262255.AAA01126@fox.univers.cv.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810262255.AAA01126@fox.univers.cv.ua>; from [Oleg N.Kolesnikov] on Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:55:41AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format autorecovered at freebie.lemis.com:] [Maximum line length: 113] On Tuesday, 27 October 1998 at 0:55:41 +0200, [Oleg N.Kolesnikov] wrote: > > I have /dev/wd0a as a MS-DOS partition. Can I use swapon /dev/wd0a > with it ? Probably. > What should I do to make use of it (w/o reinstalling the whole > system, since I have FreeBSD slice on the same HD) # swapon Of course, this will completely wipe out any Microsoft structures. Many people would consider this a Good Thing ("virus remover" :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message