Re: Specify swap device priority in fstab?

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> writes:

> Is it possible to do this?
>
> I have two swap files, and I want to designate one of them as also a
> dump file.  I tried to put ``sw,dp,-p=50'' on the dump file entry but
> ``swapctl -A'' still says it is using priority 0.
>
> I don't want swapping to overwrite a crash dump ...
>
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Do something like this (an example using a file as swap):

/swap/swap.1    none            swap    sw,priority=2   0 0





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