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From: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (John Fieber)
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Subject: Re: Increase swap?
To: rsnow@legend.txdirect.net (Rob Snow)
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 08:23:02 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950714025053.1292A-100000@oasis> from "Rob Snow" at Jul 14, 95 02:56:47 am
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Rob Snow writes:
> 	can I increase swap via swapfiles?
> 
> 	ie. swapon /dev/wd0s4e/tmp/swapfile.swap

Almost, but you need another step.  Check out the vnconfig(8) man
page for details.  It includes a (terse) example of making a swap
file.  

-john

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