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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:05:05 -0400
From: Jon Fox <mycr0ft@drfox.com>
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Subject: Swap usage locks up my laptop.
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Whenever I start up gnome I'm getting panics and reboots, until I got
wise and ran ``swapoff'' and started up gnome. No panics. 

How can I check my swap parition in FreeBSD. I've used fsck and
badblocks on ext2 in Linux, but how do I check my FreeBSD swap? 



-- mycr0ft