Re: Swap space priorities

Roy P. Turner (roypt@dopamine.com)
Sun, 12 Jan 1997 03:07:14 -0600

>You might want to check if the init scripts are invoking plain swapon,
>if it is you can check to see if the priority is being specified
>explicitly. I don't think swapon checks fstab to get this
>information.

'swapon -a' in my init script.

>From swapon(8)
"Add pri=value to the option field of /etc/fstab for use with swapon -a"

>Next step is if mount is being used, make sure the version of mount
>knows about the priority argument in the fstab.

mount-2.5p

The source for swapon would indicate the ability to set swap priority in
the fstab.

Thanks,
Roy