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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> James Miller wrote:
> >
> > can it use a swap partition if one exists, rather than the swap file?
>
> Yes.  In /etc/rc look for swapon (near the top) and point it at
> your swap partition.

Here's what I did to get my swap partition used that seems to have worked.
Please offer any corrections if I have made any mistakes.  I decided first
of all that I would need to add the swap partition to /etc/fstab, so I
did.  Was that necessary?  Then, I had a look at /etc/rc.  The line for
swapon was a bit more complex than I expected: it looked some thing like
[-e somethingorother] && swapon /c:/baslin/swap.img.  I wasn't quite sure
what the [-e . . .] && stuff was doing, so I decided to just comment out
that line.  Then, I added a new line as follows:
--------------------
swapon /dev/hda3
--------------------
That seem to have worked: so far as I can tell, BL3 is now using my swap
partition and not the swap file on c:  Any corrections/clarifications to
offer on this procedure?

James