Subject: Re: Swap space...
To: port-mac68k <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@fb.sa.enteract.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/18/1998 01:20:20
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
> >I'm trying to configure the swap space on a different disk than my base/usr
> >on my MacSE... is this even possible? I've looked through my files looking
> >for a config for it, but just couldn't see it. Any help?
>
> With newer setups (I think 1.3 release was the first to support this) you
> can accomplish this. I would assume that all you'd need to do would be to
> update the FSTAB accordingly.
Indeed. Of course, you also have to make a swap partition on the other
drive. In fact, if you still have a swap on the primary drive, you can use
them both, and NetBSD will divide up the load between them. There are some
observations and suggestions on disk layouts in SMM-01. Try
cd /usr/share/doc/smm/01.setup ;
soelim -I. 0.* | tbl | groff -ms -Tlatin1 | less