[HOWTO] Move the swapdir in Jaguar

[gatorparrots]

No, fstabs are not necessary. Mike Bombich's technique is for OS X 10.1.x. He explicitly notes on his page on the topic:
(http://www.bombich.com/mactips/swap.html)

Note: I have not tested this method on Mac OS 10.2 (nor do I plan to...sorry!).

[DMCrimson]

ok, roger that

[Chris Knight]

Originally posted by gatorparrots
also we'll add a mount -a command for an extra margin of safety, just before establishing the swap location (in the example below, the swap directory is moved to a separate partition, /Volumes/.vm

Where's that go? It's not in the example text.

[MacNEO]

I am really new to OSX, but I really want to start off by custom installing OSX and move the swap file to its own partition. I haven't done anything in the terminal yet and don't know where to begin. Do you cut and paste these lines of code? I assume I am way off here...? Please help!

[ogg]

I had do the same. I'm working with Photoshop and Illustrator. This Apps giving their Virtual "Work" Files automatically to the same Drive where the swap resists. I had 500MB for Swap, it was to less. So I had to redefine in the Settings of this Apps where the Work-Files should be.

[bbos]

Great post Gatorparrots.

I would recommend people only do this if they are atleast comfortable with the terminal application and know how to cd, rm, cp and mv. If you don't really know what you are doing you could hose your system (it would go "pear shaped" as Jack Meadows from The Bill would say).

Cheers,

Brooke

[Durbrow]

In a previous post, people seemed to recommend a fast 1 or 2 GB hard drive. I was curious if the swap file speed would (1) work

and (2) be even faster on one of those memory chip key ring things.

Thanks!

[Darkshadow]

Actually, yeah, if you put the swap into some sort of memory rather than a hard drive, it would definitely be faster. The slow down with it on a hard drive is that hard drives can't read and write anywhere near as fast as memory does.

So if you actually have a memory chip on a key ring that you can mount...I'd say go for it. Err, and let me know where to get one of those, 'cause I've never heard of it. Heh