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Re: Problem with Swap Partition

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Tim Roberts wrote:
> I don't know if anyone has asked, but how did you format the partition.
> I accomplished this by booting into OS 9.1 and using Drive Setup. I
> gives you the option of formatting as a swap partition. You can also do
> it from pdisk. At the command prompt
> type pdisk. Typing "?" then will list the relevant commands. Typing "L"
> will list all the partitions. Make sure it is named swap. If not this
> could be the source of you problem.

Just to clear a few things up:

pdisk doesn't do formatting, it only deals with the partition table
(unless there's some new version of pdisk I don't know about).

The swap partition doesn't need to be formatted anyway, because it's used
as virtual memory and is written to directly, so it doesn't have a
filesystem. Apparently, Darwin cannot use swap partitions. Those swap
partitions are used by other open source OS's such as MkLinux.

So, to make a swapfile partition, you have to format it HFS. (Is this
possible from Darwin, or does one need to reboot into MacOS?)

Daniel

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