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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: mfs & swap relationship
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Hello!

What's significant about mounting mfs's on the same partition as
a system swap partition?   The mount_mfs(8) man page hints that this
partition is used for any spillover, but that doesn't make sense.  Why
isolate it to a specific swap partition?  

And can you make an mfs that's attached to a different partition? 

Thanks for any info.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major