In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Jeremy wri tes: >[Redirected to -hackers because this isn't directly relevant to the > actual code committed] > >On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:04:02AM -0700, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> Suggested replacement command sequence on the client: >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1k count=1 oseek=100000 >> swapon /swapfile > >This results in a sparse swapfile.
You don't _have_ to make it a sparse file, you are free to preallocate the entire file if that is important to you. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
