Subject: Re: multiple swap partitions
To: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@espus.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/11/1999 05:46:57
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Jon Lindgren wrote:

> > On Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:17:22 -0500 (EST) 
> >  mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> > 
> >  > /dev/sd0b none swap sw 0 0
> >  > /dev/sd1b none swap sw 0 0
> >  > 
> >  > in /etc/fstab?

> 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.

They're not really mounted, more like configured. But no, you can't
unconfigure them. You can't even unconfigure a single swap partiton
while the system is running.