Re: [SLE] swap

From: Patrick Shanahan (paka_at_wahoo.no-ip.org)
Date: 07/21/04

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    * Serge Naggar <naggar@sprintmail.com> [07-21-04 02:03]:
    > Does anybody know if suse 9.1 will use both aas a total swap; use the
    > scsi solely or the small ide?

    to use more than one swap partition, list each desired swap partition
    in /etc/fstab as:

    /dev/hda6 swap swap pri=42 0 0
    /dev/hdd6 swap swap pri=42 0 0

    then from command-line issue: /sbin/swapon -a

    to display which partitions are being used for swap: swapon -s

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