2nd swap partition

2007-12-25 7:29:00

The original question was how to declare a n-th swap partition

in the /etc/fstab, choosing between the various possibilities in

the manuals.

The generally agreed opinion was that they are all equivalent, because

the differing 2nd and 4th field seem to be ignored anyways, as long as

the 3rd field is "swap". For that reason, the /etc/fstab entry

          /dev/sd6b - swap - 0 0

is fully sufficient (and works fine for mp@allegra.att.com).

Thanks to

mp@allegra.att.com (Mark Plotnick)

Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk

trinkle@cs.purdue.edu (Daniel Trinkle)

Shin Yoshimura <shin@nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>

trdlnk!mike@relay.EU.net (Michael Sullivan)

gerry@jtsv16.jts.com (G. Roderick Singleton)

Eckhard R"uggeberg

Mathematisches Institut der Universit"at G"ottingen

Bunsenstr. 3 - 5

3400 G"ottingen

Germany

erueg@cfgauss.uni-math.gwdg.de

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