Subject: Re: Swapping to file and printers too...
To: pwain@nc.com <PWAIN@nc.com>
From: Simon Ogilvie <etlsnoe@deep-thought.ericsson.se>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/17/1996 08:58:14
> 1) I need to do a link which needs around 100Mb+ of memory to even think about
> starting
> from what I can tell. The question therefore arrises of how to swap to a file.
> I guessed
> swapon(8) (well not so much a guess but...) but this doesnt work:
>
> # swapon /disk1/swapfile
> swapon: /disk1/swapfile: Block device required
>
> (I did play around with mknod too, but all the variants I tried came back with
> device not configured). Any ideas?
How have you created the swapfile? If you did a mkfile <size> /disk1/swapfile
then this ought to work, but you'd be better off putting the reference to it
in the /etc/fstab file so it gets picked up on reboot. The line you need in
fstab is something like:
/disk1/swapfile swap swap rw 0 0
and you then just need to do a swapon -a for this to be actioned.
Sorry, can't help you with the printer :-)
Simon.
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