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- From: rawyatt@phakt.usc.edu (Robert Alexander Wyatt)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Basic Swapfile Questions...
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 01:41:07 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Another swapfile question...
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- Actually, I'm going to insult all of the NeXT geniuses and ask...
- What exactly is a swapfile and why do I have it? I know that it gets bigger
- and bigger...how can I wipe it out? Is there a terminal command? Can I
- simply erase it?
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- I have limited disk space...my swapfile is 16MB and my swapfile.front is
- 37MB...what's the difference between the two? what are their purposes?
- That 50+ Meg sure could come in handy...(even a fraction of it...)
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- Thanks a lot! Please email or post any responses!
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- Later,
- Rob
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- rawyatt@scf.usc.edu
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