Attachment 121849 Details for Bug 164920 – handbook.config.chapter.sgml.diff

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>Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml,v
>retrieving revision 1.250
>diff -u -d -r1.250 chapter.sgml
>--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml	31 Jan 2012 14:14:59 -0000	1.250
>+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml	8 Feb 2012 23:14:35 -0000
>@@ -2390,15 +2390,37 @@
>       <xref linkend="swap-encrypting"> of the Handbook.</para>
> 
>     <sect2 id="new-drive-swap">
>-      <title>Swap on a New Hard Drive</title>
>+      <title>Swap on a New or Existing Hard Drive</title>
> 
>-      <para>The best way to add swap, of course, is to use this as an
>-	excuse to add another hard drive.  You can always use another
>-	hard drive, after all.  If you can do this, go reread the
>-	discussion of swap space
>-	in <xref linkend="configtuning-initial">
>-	of the Handbook for some suggestions on how to best
>-	arrange your swap.</para>
>+      <para>The best way, and the way that gives most performance, is to add
>+	a new swap partition on an existing or new hard drive.  How to set up
>+	partitions and harddrives is explaned in <xref linkend="disks-adding">
>+	and <xref linkend="configtuning-initial"> contains a discussion on
>+	partition layouts and swap partition size considerations.</para>
>+      <para>When a partition is prepared and selected, &man.swapon.8; is used
>+	to add the partition to the system.  If the partition is
>+	<filename>/dev/ada1s1p2</filename>, this will look like:</para>
>+
>+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>swapon
>+	<replaceable>/dev/ada1s1p2</replaceable></userinput></screen>
>+
>+      <warning>
>+	<para>It is posible to use any partition not currently mounted, even
>+	  if it contains a file system.  If the partition contains a file
>+	  system and is mounted as swap space, the filesystem will be
>+	  destroyed.  Therefore, make sure that the partition to be added as
>+	  swap partition is really the intended partition, before running
>+	  <command>swapon</command>.</para>
>+      </warning>
>+
>+      <para>To make this new swap partition automatically added on boot,
>+	change <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> to include an entry for the
>+	partition.  This entry can look something like:</para>
>+
>+      <programlistning>/dev/ada1s1p1	none	swap	sw	0	0</programlistning>
>+
>+      <para>For an explanation of entries in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>,
>+	refer to &man.fstab.5;.</para>
>     </sect2>
> 
>     <sect2 id="nfs-swap">

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