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Subject: RE: md(4) (swap-base) disks not cleaned on creation
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An excellent example of where swap shouldn't be used.  It isn't the use of the swap file that is the issue, it is how the output of
using swap is used.  PHK was right in his advice to not use swap.

Good catch, nanobsd.sh should be changed.