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Re: Mounting files instead of directories?

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herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com writes:

>It I put the name of the directory with the swap file in bootparamd, it
>looks like it mounts it, but then says 0 bytes swap. If I put the name
>of the swap file in, the mount fails.

How did you create the file?  What type of file is it?  SunOS does not
like files which are "holey" or seem to be holey, like compressed ZFS
files.  And I hope it's < 2GB.


SunOS is such a long ago memory that I can't remember these
specific issues other than that "there was something there".

Casper

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Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-15 09:59 -0700
  Re: Mounting files instead of directories? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2016-09-15 23:19 +0200
    Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-15 14:32 -0700
      Re: Mounting files instead of directories? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2016-09-16 07:56 +0200
  Re: Mounting files instead of directories? Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> - 2016-09-16 10:47 +0000
    Re: Mounting files instead of directories? Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2016-09-16 11:02 +0000
      Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 06:22 -0700
        Re: Mounting files instead of directories? Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2016-09-16 13:28 +0000
          Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 12:56 -0700
            Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 13:28 -0700
              Re: Mounting files instead of directories? herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2016-09-16 14:39 -0700

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