[X4U] Swap Directory disappears

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Wed Jul 6 13:57:20 PDT 2005


On 07/05/05, Alex <lists at lexial.ca> wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2005, at 20:44, John Baltutis wrote:
>> On 07/05/05, Michel Treisman <treisman at psy.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>   All is not OK.  Applejack says:
>>>
>>>   "Warning. Swap directory private/var/vm appears not to exist" [...]
>>
>> [...] All the clones I make wiith CCC have a vm swapfile (it's
>> not a directory). [...]
>
> You probably misread the OP. /private/var/vm is a directory.
> /private/var/vm/swapfile* are not directories.
>
> As to CCC, by default it removes a number of items, including
> /private/var/vm/swapfile*. If CCC did copy the swapfiles, then you must
> have modified its advanced prefs (see "Advanced Features" in CCC Help).

You're correct. I misread the first part and then saw someone else said
that booting the clone into AppleJack (basically single-user mode) after
making the clone precludes /vm creation. Since I do normal boots, my clones
have the directory recreated during initial boot.


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