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Date:      Mon, 8 Jun 1998 23:34:07 -0400 (EDT)
From:      ADRIAN Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com>
To:        Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: do I need to newfs a swap partition?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980608233239.3318D-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com>
In-Reply-To: <357C8CA3.38D11344@chalmers.com.au>

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On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Robert Chalmers wrote:

> Subject says it all 
> 
> ta
> Bob

	Nope.  The swap area is just blocks of data that were
swapped/paged out by the kernel after the system booted.  There is no
structure like in a filesystem. 

	Adrian
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