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From: Georg Lehner <jorge-plan9@magma.com.ni>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] termrc changes
References: <aa862afd5b9e8f24faec924245141693@proxima.alt.za>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:40:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: <aa862afd5b9e8f24faec924245141693@proxima.alt.za> (Lucio De Re's
	message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:43:41 +0200")
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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=3D`{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?=20

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

Regards


    Jorge-Le=F3n