[Info-vax] page and swap files

[Bart.Zorn@gmail.com]

On Aug 1, 10:33 pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <slrnj3bqb8.s1.B... at RABBIT.HSD1.MA.COMCAST.NET>,
>
> B... at RABBIT.HSD1.MA.COMCAST.NET () writes:
> > Any reason you want to keep the page/swap files on the system disk?  
>
> As I mentioned, I just want minimal files there.  Maybe the minimum is
> zero.  It would be nice to have a bootable system disk which can boot
> without having to access any other disks, so presumably it would have to
> have some at least minimal page/swap files there.

Even page/swap files on the system disk need to be installed somewhere
during the startup process. OK, SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM does it early,
but only if the files exist. OpenVMS will boot fine without them. So,
yes the minimum size is zero. If you decide for this size, I recommend
that you *NOT* create the files!

Bart