Re: Sharing Swap files

[Alexander Goldstein <agoldste@uic.edu>]

On Sun, 28 Jan 1996 br00031@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu wrote:

>  I have uudecoded and gunziped the  msinfo file in the "Sharing Swap ..." 
> mini how to.   It does not do anything.   Has anyone gotten this to work. 
> Thank you.
> 

I have the thing working, but as far as I remember there was a typo of 
some sort in the howto.  Anyway, here are the changes that I had to make:

in the /etc/init.d/boot insert the line marked with + between the lines 
indicated:
 
  #  Activate the swap device(s) in /etc/fstab.
+ mkswap /dev/hdc9
  swapon -a

ofcouse replace /dev/hdc9 with your partition

also in /etc/init.d/halt add following code 

  echo -n "Deactivating swap... "
  swapoff -a
  echo "done."

+ echo "Restoring DOS swap space..."
+  zcat /etc/dosswap/dos.hdc9.gz | dd of=/dev/hdc9 bs=1k

again replace files with apropriate ones.  Ofcouse before you do any of 
this, first you would need to format the drive for dos, and create the 
dos image file by doing something like this:


	dd if=/dev/hdc9 of=/etc/dosswap/dos.hdc9 bs=1k count=1000
	gzip -9 /etc/dosswap/dos.hdc9

If the disk is freshly formated, the image will compress very nicely.  My 
/etc/dosswap/dos.hdc9.gz is 679 bytes.  

Good luck.


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Alexander Goldstein                         email: agoldste@uic.edu