From: Reto Lichtensteiger <rali@hri.com>
% man mkfile
NAME
mkfile - create a file
SYNOPSIS
mkfile [ -nv ] size[k|b|m] filename ...
DESCRIPTION
mkfile creates one or more files that are suitable for use
as NFS-mounted swap areas, or as local swap areas. The
sticky bit is set, and the file is padded with zeroes by
default. The default size is in bytes, but it can be
flagged as kilobytes, blocks, or megabytes, with the k, b,
or m suffixes, respectively.
OPTIONS
-n Create an empty filename. The size is noted, but disk
blocks aren't allocated until data is written to them.
-v Verbose. Report the names and sizes of created files.
SEE ALSO
swapon(2), fstab(5), swapon(8)
Sounds like the thing to do ...
And ...
%man swapon
NAME
swapon - specify additional device for paging and swapping
SYNOPSIS
/usr/etc/swapon -a
/usr/etc/swapon name...
DESCRIPTION
swapon specifies additional devices or files on which paging
and swapping are to take place. The system begins by swap-
ping and paging on only a single device so that only one
disk is required at bootstrap time. Calls to swapon nor-
mally occur in the system multi-user initialization file
/etc/rc making all swap devices available, so that the pag-
ing and swapping activity is interleaved across several dev-
ices.
The second form gives individual block devices or files as
given in the system swap configuration table. The call
makes only this space available to the system for swap allo-
cation.
Note: "swap files" made with mkfile(8) can be used as swap
areas over NFS.
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