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Handbook 11.12.2. Creating a Swap File: fix fstab entry
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An example for creating file-backed swap lists the following fstab entry:

md99 none swap sw,file=/usr/swap0 0 0

This doesn't really work, late argument needs to be added.

Upd: there's PR for this: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206715

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Create file-backed swap as descrived in the handbook, reboot.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 16 2016, 6:21 PM