Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 16:48:27 +0200
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org ('hackers@freefall.freebsd.org')
Cc: mango@staff.communique.net (Raul Zighelboim)
Subject: Re: vnconfig and swapon...
Message-ID: <19970628164827.KS44891@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <A03CD00C69B1D01195AB00A024ECEB161736AB@kaori.Communique.Net>; from Raul Zighelboim on Jun 27, 1997 15:09:07 -0500
References: <A03CD00C69B1D01195AB00A024ECEB161736AB@kaori.Communique.Net>
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As Raul Zighelboim wrote: > I added the following two lines to my kernel configuration: > options NSWAPDEV=2 What's this for? The default is 4 devices. > conf# vnconfig -e /dev/vn0b /var/news/spool/articles/swap.file swap > swapon: Device not configured I think you gotta disklabel the device first. There's no /dev/vn0b available otherwise. Maybe you could use a plain /dev/vn0 without a label. I think there's even a knob in the rc files (or sysconfig for 2.2 systems) for swap files. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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