I have given up!

[b4tn]

I am tired of having to change my swap file info everytime my volumes change. (like adding a flash card etc..) Every time I add a volume the drive assighnment changes and my swap file gets dumped on a random drive. This last time it got dumped on my 0s9 drive. This made classic not work because system took control. So I fixed the drive changes in the terminal, upon reboot it completely erased my os9 drive! I changed everything back to normal! I didnt notice a difference any way huphf! (sour grapes)

 

[edX]

not sure if this will help solve your issue or not but it is a new haxie for moving your swap files where you want them to be. very painless except for the reboot

click here to get SwapCop

 

[b4tn]

heh heh this'l work thanks..

 

[b4tn]

for the record. all this program does is make the excact same changes that can be made easily from the terminal in pico. after installing it and inserting a new volume things got messed up just like before.

 

[genghiscohen]

I'm a bit confused here. I have a dedicated swapfile partition, and it has never moved around. Any time I cd to that partition, there sits swapfile0.
By "adding a volume," you mean like inserting a CD or zip disk? I have done this often without my swapfile being moved. Or does it only happen when you boot up with a new volume added?

 

[b4tn]

only seems to happen when i reboot with a new volume inserted. (compact flash or zip) after a reboot terminal gets all confused and lists my drives weird for instance. swap drive will be named swap 1 os9 drive will be named swap 0 and there will be a volume I cant list called 0. but in changes every time I reboot to something slightly different. because there names are changing the swap file hack looses track of the drive it is assigned I am guessing.