From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 30 10:40:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA27778 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 10:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA27773 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 10:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.18]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <23357(5)>; Fri, 30 May 1997 10:39:29 PDT Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com [13.231.133.90]) by www.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA19037; Fri, 30 May 1997 13:24:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA04250; Fri, 30 May 97 13:24:14 EDT Message-Id: <9705301724.AA04250@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Zahemszky Gabor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions), potok@free.polbox.pl Subject: Re: Windows 383spart.par as SWAP slice? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 May 1997 02:16:10 PDT." <199705260916.LAA00801@CoDe.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 10:24:12 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It may work better if you have a dedicated swap partition... In linux (I haven't done the bsd incantations yet) I: mount /dev/swap-partition /mnt look and erase swap files if there's nothing important there, continue umount dd if=/dev/swap-partition count= | gzip -c > /tmp/swap.gz do whatever I want with the paritition on shutdown I swapoff (does bsd support this?) zcat /tmp/swap.gz >/dev/swap-partition. -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com The Feynman problem solving Algorithm 1) Write down the problem 2) Think real hard 3) Write down the answer Murray Gel-mann in the NY Times