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This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.
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92 lines
3.3 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
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.\" @(#)swapon.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 5, 1993
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.Dt SWAPON 8
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm swapon
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.Nd "specify additional device for paging and swapping"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm swapon
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.Fl a
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.Nm swapon
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.Ar special_file ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Swapon
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is used to specify additional devices on which paging and swapping
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are to take place.
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The system begins by swapping and paging on only a single device
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so that only one disk is required at bootstrap time.
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Calls to
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.Nm swapon
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normally occur in the system multi-user initialization file
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.Pa /etc/rc
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making all swap devices available, so that the paging and swapping
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activity is interleaved across several devices.
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.Pp
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Normally, the first form is used:
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl a
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All devices marked as ``sw''
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swap devices in
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.Pa /etc/fstab
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are made available unless their ``noauto'' option is also set.
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.El
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.Pp
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The second form gives individual block devices as given
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in the system swap configuration table. The call makes only this space
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available to the system for swap allocation.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr swapon 2 ,
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.Xr fstab 5 ,
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.Xr init 8 ,
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.Xr rc 8
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /dev/[ru][pk]?b -compact
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.It Pa /dev/[ru][pk]?b
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standard paging devices
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.It Pa /etc/fstab
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ascii filesystem description table
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.El
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.Sh BUGS
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There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device.
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It is therefore not possible to make use of devices which may be
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dismounted during system operation.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.0 .
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