Re: how to concatenate MFS drive with physical partition

[Tod McQuillin <devin@spamcop.net>]

On 19 Jan 2002 zil0g@glitch.co.uk wrote:

> I want to extend my RAM drive with a physical (larger) partition,
> just in case it would fill up. Right now I have a 96MB /tmp
> and thought it could be useful to extend it a little, fstab snip -
>
> swap /tmp mfs rw,noexec,noatime,-s=196608 0 0
>
> would it be possible to 'ccd' this with a partition?

Just add your extra partition as swap space and increase the mfs size in
fstab.  When the usage exceeds your available memory it will be paged out
to the swap partition(s) automatically.
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Tod McQuillin