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Date:      Thu, 3 Jun 2004 02:40:13 +0200
From:      Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de>
To:        Brent Wiese <brently@bjwcs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swap question
Message-ID:  <20040603004013.GE88472@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
In-Reply-To: <20040603002448.KPDC13107.fed1rmmtao04.cox.net@SAMBA>
References:  <20040603002448.KPDC13107.fed1rmmtao04.cox.net@SAMBA>

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Brent Wiese wrote:
> I recently added a new disk to a 4.9 machine. I was having problems runni=
ng
> out of swap space, so I used a couple gigs of this drive as another swap
> partition.
>=20
> It is listed as a swap partition in /etc/fstab.
>=20
> I couldn't actually find something that would confirm this, so hoping
> someone here can.
>=20
> I saw in "man swapon" something about only the first swap partition is us=
ed
> when the machine boots. The implication was any other swaps needed to be
> "turned on" afterwards.

That man page misses a SEE ALSO reference to swapinfo. It will show
usage statistics for all of your swap partitions.

Simon

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