From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) Subject: Re: [BUG] What's pl7 done to my swap paritions? Date: 16 Mar 1993 13:58:57 GMT
In <jason.732237495@sorokin> jason@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Jason Andrade) writes:
>ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>[..]
>>Adding 8172k swap on /dev/sda8
>>Adding 8172k swap on /dev/sdb5
>[..]
>I've got something slighty different in that i have /dev/hdb4 as a 3M
>swap and /dev/swapfile as a 512K extra swapfile.
>i swapon -a (with entries in /etc/fstab) and i get something like
>Adding 3812K swap on /dev/hdb4
>Adding 3812K swap on /dev/hdb4 (or perhaps swapfile.. i dont remember..)
>but thats right.. swapon .. says my 512K swapfile is 3M .. now i wish this
>was true (compressed swap system ? *giggle*..) but 'free' reports the
>right amount of swap .. sooo.. what's happening ?
I forgot to mention in my original post that 'free' reports only
16MB swap available; it should be 24MB (8MB + 16MB). So, for
me it's not just the numbers swapon reports -- it really doesn't
work right for the second partition...
-Chris
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