Subject: Re: multiple swap partitions
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@espus.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/11/1999 06:39:54
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:17:22 -0500 (EST) 
>  mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> 
>  > is it possible to have multiple swap partitions?  For example
>  > 
>  > /dev/sd0b none swap sw 0 0
>  > /dev/sd1b none swap sw 0 0
>  > 
>  > in /etc/fstab?
>  > 
>  > does this make any sense?  I'm wanting to install on a system with 2
>  > very small disks.
> 
> Yes.

Perhaps a dumb question, but can you unmount one of the partitions while
the system is up?  If NetBSD interleaves them, then it seems like it'd be
hard to do so, but I'm curious purely for hack value.

-Jon Lindgren