Re: [ILUG] Spooky dissappearence of swap space on solaris

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain lbedford.org)
Date: Fri 22 Jun 2001 - 11:58:20 IST


On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:45:54AM +0000, Conor Daly came forth with:
> Questions are:
> Why is the partition *size* changing rather than the useage?
> How come the "swap" filesystem/partition is mounted on /tmp?
> Is there some dynamic "sharing" of /tmp filesystem and swap space going on?
Yup.. tmpfs is mounted on swap IIRC.

you can change that and do it like other unices...

I'm sure you could find a sun admin to do it for silly money <g>

> HTF do sun partitioning schemes work anyhow?
>
in general not too badly.. something similar to a BSD slices system,
using the format command.

L.

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