11-10-2000
I GOT IT!!!!
I did a little research regarding this issue.
It turns out that it is very simple...
first, create a file with a size in megabytes of the swap space you wish. I did this in the root directory for simplicity.
mkfile 1024 /swapfile
second, manually add the file as swap space
swap -a /swapfile
this is it!!
Now it gets interesting. To have the swap space mounted everytime you machine boots, you need to edit /etc/vfstab.
You'll have to look at vfstab(4) for the syntax of the file, but as I have learned---It's there if you read it
Thanks for all your help
SmartJuniorUnix......UNTIL NEXT TIME
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HD(4) Linux Programmer's Manual HD(4)
NAME
hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices
DESCRIPTION
The hd* devices are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode. The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major
device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb. The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) is hdc and the slave
hdd.
General IDE block device names have the form hdX, or hdXP, where X is a letter denoting the physical drive, and P is a number denoting the
partition on that physical drive. The first form, hdX, is used to address the whole drive. Partition numbers are assigned in the order
the partitions are discovered, and only nonempty, nonextended partitions get a number. However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the
four partitions described in the MBR (the "primary" partitions), regardless of whether they are unused or extended. Thus, the first logi-
cal partition will be hdX5. Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported. You can have at most 63 partitions
on an IDE disk.
For example, /dev/hda refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and /dev/hdb3 refers to the third DOS "primary" partition on the
second one.
They are typically created by:
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mknod -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1
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...
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mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66
...
mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72
chown root:disk /dev/hd*
FILES
/dev/hd*
SEE ALSO
chown(1), mknod(1), sd(4), mount(8)
COLOPHON
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