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From: Georg Lehner <jorge-plan9@magma.com.ni>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] termrc changes
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:40:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87irgyc7ha.fsf@jorgito.magma.com.ni> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa862afd5b9e8f24faec924245141693@proxima.alt.za> (Lucio De Re's message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:43:41 +0200")

Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za> writes:

>> The new termrc avoids using test when looking for swap partitions.
>
> I tend to like to slip a "sort -nr" into the fry, it allows me to pick
> the largest swap partition when I have multiple disks.  Not
> necessarily what everyone may want, of course:
>
> swp=`{ls -s /dev/sd*/swap | sort -nr | sed 1q | awk '{print $2}'}
>
> ++L
>

If you have several swap partitions, wouldn't you set them up all at
once? 

mhm.. I think I do not understand how swapping works under Plan9 at
all.  Any pointer to the most helpful documentation?

Regards


    Jorge-León


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-29 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-28 17:35 Joel Salomon
2006-11-28 19:37 ` geoff
2006-11-28 20:11   ` Richard Miller
2006-11-29  4:43   ` Lucio De Re
2006-11-29 14:54     ` ron minnich
2006-11-29 16:39       ` Lucio De Re
2006-11-29 16:40       ` Russ Cox
2006-11-29 16:50         ` ron minnich
2006-11-30  0:37           ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-30  1:15             ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-30  0:29       ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-30  0:34         ` ron minnich
2006-11-29 20:40     ` Georg Lehner [this message]
2006-11-30  4:34       ` Lucio De Re
2006-11-30  4:35         ` geoff
2006-11-30  4:58           ` Lucio De Re
2006-11-29  9:19 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2006-11-29 18:47 ` geoff
2006-11-29 18:59   ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-29 20:08     ` Charles Forsyth
2006-12-01  1:19   ` John Floren
2006-12-01  1:38     ` geoff
2006-12-01  2:09       ` Bruce Ellis
2006-12-01  3:11         ` John Floren
2006-12-01  3:15           ` Bruce Ellis

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