> My main question is the device it uses. The man page has the > device /dev/sd0b. This needs to be set up somewhere. Still, I see > that people use "swap" in its place instead.
Swap is the b partition in a generic kernel (and most other kernels, too). Use of "swap" in fstab just simplifies things. You don't have to know that the partition is sd0b or wd0b or some other device or some combination of devices in case swapon is used. // marc
