Subject: Re: tmp in mfs and swap
To: None <jgb@gsyc.inf.uc3m.es>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/04/1996 01:53:20
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:19:24 +0100
>From: "Jesus M. Gonzalez" <jgb@gsyc.inf.uc3m.es>

>	I've moved to use /tmp in memory file system (BTW, I've
>seen a great performance gain, specially when compiling).
>But now I'd like to use the previous /tmp partition as a swap
>partition. I've tried, after the fstab(5) manpage,
>to use "none" as the mount point, but mount -a doesn't seem to
>recoginize it on bootstrap (non existent mount point, or something
>like that). Should I do something more to "prepare" the partition?
>Is the man page wrong?

[snip]
This all looks OK.  What I think you need to do is to edit your wd0
disklabel so that the type of its e: partition is "swap" instead of
"4.2BSD".
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