* Marco S Hyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-23 09:57]: > > My main question is the device it uses. The man page has the > > device /dev/sd0b. This needs to be set up somewhere. Still, I see > > that people use "swap" in its place instead. > > Swap is the b partition in a generic kernel (and most other kernels, > too). Use of "swap" in fstab just simplifies things. You don't have > to know that the partition is sd0b or wd0b or some other device or some > combination of devices in case swapon is used.
and you don't actually need a [s|w]d0b or any swap partition for that matter -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
