Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 09:53:16 PST From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd and swap space Message-ID: <9512311753.AA07390@gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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I'm working on a strategy to share swap space between win95/linux/freebsd and NT using an extended partition... >From what I've seen of the freebsd swap space strategy: 1) we have to select a swap partition within the disk slice 2) we cannot make a swapfile (we have to swap on a swap partition). What I did is I have a dos formatted extended partition (about 30Mbyte). When I boot linux multiuser, I: mount as dos erase all dos files (they should only be swap files) umount as dos do dd if=/dev/swap-space count=<small number> | gzip -c >/tmp/swap.copy.gz mkswap /dev/swap-space swapon /dev/swap-space and when I bring down the system I do: swapoff /dev/swap-space zcat /tmp/swap.copy.gz >/dev/swap-space It seems to be working well, I want to implement the same in freebsd... There doesn't seem to be a mkswap or a swapoff command implemented... marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom (http://www.lpf.org) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001
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