/etc/fstab swap syntax

[Peter_Brink]

Hi,

We are using 11.31.

I'm adding a second swap device. The man page for fstab states that a swap device entry should look someting like:

/dev/vg01/lv10 / swap defaults 0 0 # swap device

On the net I've seen a couple of other syntaxes, for example:

/dev/vg01/lvswap ... swap pri=3 0 0

and

/dev/vg14/lvol15 . swap defaults 0 0

Does it matter wheter one uses "/" "..." or "."?

The man page does not mention any way of stating the priority of the device, so I "pri=2" seems obselete, correct?

How does HPUX keep track of the priority? Istill need to state the priority when running the swapon command.

Regards,

Peter Brink

[Torsten.]

SAM was able to help already 15 years ago with this, but the shiny new SMH still can't do this ... (unless I missed it in a newer release).

However, back to the roots, command line and vi.

The man page tells you

"

directory
           field is ignored but must not be empty:

for this reason you see different characters there ( "/" or "." etc).

[Peter_Brink]

:)

Thanks!