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Date:      Sat, 1 Apr 1995 22:29:57 -0800
From:      jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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Subject:   any interest?
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From: nils@guru.stgt.sub.org (Cornelis van der Laan)
Subject: Re: Can I use swapfiles?
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In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert's message of 24 Mar 1995 18:44:48 GMT
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 22:29:17 GMT
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In article <3kv3v0$jq7@park.uvsc.edu> Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:

> The way to create swapfiles is to use the command:
> 
> 	dd if=/dev/zero count=XXX,bs=YYY of=my_swap_file
> 
> Where you replace XXX and YYY with whatever you want to get any
> size of swap file.

The usual way under SunOS is 'mkfile 4m /some/file'. This way
no disk blocks are allocated until they are actually needed. 
Here is a clone implementation of mkfile, done by Robert Claeson 
(prc@erbe.se).

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Cornelis van der Laan -- nils@ims.uni-stuttgart.de
                      -- nils@guru.stgt.sub.org
# echo Knusper Knusper Knaeuschen > /etc/nologin



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