[Info-vax] page and swap files

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

Now that I have enough disk space, I want to re-organise page, swap and 
dump files.  For a start, just the page and swap files.  (One goal is to 
reduce the size of these files on the system disk, so that I have more 
room there (including room for a dump file, since for now I don't want 
to dump off the system disk (since that would require a non-shadowed 
disk)).)

Any reason to change this plan?

   o  Use autogen with TESTFILES to get recommended sizes.

   o  Resize the primary files to a usable minimum.  (What should 
      this be?)

   o  Create secondary files on a non-system disk to bring up the total
      to recommended size.  (Any reason to create more than one 
      secondary file (assume all are on the same disk)?)

   o  In MODPARAMS.DAT:

      -  Specify names of all files.

      -  Specify total sizes---AUTOGEN will modify only secondary files
         (how true is this in practice)?  (If there is no reason to have
         more than one secondary file, then I can tell AUTOGEN not to 
         mess with the primary files and specify the size of the single
         secondary file---one can't specify both total size and also an
         individual size (even if 0, i.e. AUTOGEN should leave it 
         alone), so this won't work with more than one secondary file.)