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Re: Problem with Swap Partition

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Markus Hitter wrote:
> <snip>
> The big advantage of pdisk is, you can modify/delete/create single
> partitions without touching the other ones on this disk.

Heh. With pdisk, you can even resize a partition you're using! Of course,
it's always better to make sure that data doesn't get chopped in half
first...

pdisk is a great partitioning tool. It would be nice if it had formatting
capabilities built in, but OTOH it's really usefull without them.

> To put an actual Filsystem onto this new/modified partition, you can use
> /sbin/newfs for UFS partitions or /sbin/newfs_hfs for HFS ones. This is
> the same as Finder's "Erase Volume". Well, couldn't find this menu in OS
> X, but OS 9 features it.
>
> > [...] So, to make a swapfile partition, you have to format it HFS.
>
> Made one with an UFS an it works excellent.

Bleh! My brain froze up. I was trying to say that you needed to actually
format the partition to use it for swapfiles. The HFS bit just sort of
slipped out..

> <snip>

Daniel

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 >Re: Problem with Swap Partition (From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>)



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