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To: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: freebsd and swap space 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 Dec 1995 09:53:16 PST."
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 13:39:26 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 
> I'm working on a strategy to share swap space between
> win95/linux/freebsd and NT using an extended partition...
> 
> >From what I've seen of the freebsd swap space strategy:
> 	1) we have to select a swap partition within the disk slice
> 	2) we cannot make a swapfile (we have to swap on a swap partition).

Au contraire.  See the man page for vnconfig.

					Jordan