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- Subject: Three swap partitions on Ultrix 4.3?
- Message-ID: <19633.2b5f18fd@levels.unisa.edu.au>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:43:25 +1030
- Organization: University of South Australia
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- Is it possible to configure an Ultrix 4.3 system to use 3 disks
- for swap? The documentation for swapon sort of suggests it is.
- We have found from experience that swapon doesn't work unless
- the kernal was configured to use it, eg two partitions:
- config vmunix root on rz0a swap on rz0b and rz1b dumps on rz1b
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- /etc/doconfig didn't complain about the following:
- config vmunix root on rz0a swap on rz0b and rz1b and rz2b dumps on rz1b
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- When we added the 3rd partition to fstab it would boot OK, but strange
- things happened:
- pstat -s returned
- -8k (Thats minus!) for swap configured.
-
- and top failed to execute.
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- Thanks for your help, Bevin Steer, Unix Systems Manager,
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