On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:13:42 -0500 (EST) 
 darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) wrote:

 > /usr/local/nfsclient/rapture is the root directory and that works fine.
 > /usr/local/nfsswap/rapture is a 16 Meg scratch file.  I want the system
 > to use this for swap.  I tried the following in /etc/fstab
 > 
 > druid.net:/usr/local/nfsswap/rapture none swap sw

Do this:

mkdir /swap

and change that entry to:

druid.net:/usr/local/nfsswap/rapture none swap sw,nfsmntpt=/swap

...this is documented in swapctl(8).

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