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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)swapon.8    6.2 (Berkeley) 6/30/88
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH SWAPON 8 "June 30, 1988"
        !             8: .UC 4
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: swapon \- specify additional device for paging and swapping
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B "swapon [-a] [special_file ...]"
        !            13: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            14: .I Swapon
        !            15: is used to specify additional devices on which paging and swapping
        !            16: are to take place.
        !            17: The system begins by swapping and paging on only a single device
        !            18: so that only one disk is required at bootstrap time.
        !            19: Calls to
        !            20: .I swapon
        !            21: normally occur in the system multi-user initialization file
        !            22: .I /etc/rc
        !            23: making all swap devices available, so that the paging and swapping
        !            24: activity is interleaved across several devices.
        !            25: .PP
        !            26: Normally, the
        !            27: .B \-a
        !            28: argument is given, causing all devices marked as ``sw''
        !            29: swap devices in
        !            30: .B /etc/fstab
        !            31: to be made available.
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: The second form gives individual block devices as given
        !            34: in the system swap configuration table.  The call makes only this space
        !            35: available to the system for swap allocation.
        !            36: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            37: swapon(2), init(8)
        !            38: .SH FILES
        !            39: .DT
        !            40: /dev/[ru][pk]?b        standard paging devices
        !            41: .SH BUGS
        !            42: There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device.
        !            43: It is therefore not possible to make use of devices which may be
        !            44: dismounted during system operation.

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