Hi there, I've 10.0-BETA1 i386 installed and I want to use a swap file instead of a swap partition. I created /swapfile and I'm able to enable it manually by following commands:
mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /swapfile -u 0 swapon /dev/md0 This is according to the following section of the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/adding-swap-space.html It still states that adding swapfile="<path to swapfile>" into /etc/rc.conf enables that swap file during a boot automatically. However this is already not true for CURRENT and for the upcoming 10.0 release. According to following commit number 252310 this rc.conf parameter is obsolete http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=252310 It introduces different configuration and offers to add a line like following into /etc/fstab md none swap sw,file=/swapfile 0 0 This is what I did but 'swapon -a' still doesn't work. I didn't try to reboot because I build world in other console. But I believe the result will be the same, because /etc/rc.d/swap runs the same command: '/sbin/swapon -aq'. So what is the right way to enable a swap file during a boot and for commands like 'swapon -a' ? Thanks P.S. The Handbook needs to be updated _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
