Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 10:24:12 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Zahemszky Gabor <zgabor@code.hu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions), potok@free.polbox.pl Subject: Re: Windows 383spart.par as SWAP slice? Message-ID: <9705301724.AA04250@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 May 1997 02:16:10 PDT." <199705260916.LAA00801@CoDe.hu>
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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=<some reasonable number> | 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
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