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Date:      Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:05:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Losing the battle with RC1 
Message-ID:  <200212132005.gBDK5vfP018474@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021213200202.D66325D04@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131116010.36866-100000@root.org> <20021213200202.D66325D04@ptavv.es.net>

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<<On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:02 -0800, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> said:

> Thanks for pointing out the obvious! (Although I am confused by why it
> wiped the root partition which is BEFORE swap.)

Because it starts at the end of the specified partition and works its
way backwards.  (The hope is to preserve as much of the existing swap
as possible, under the assumption that swap starts from the
beginning.)

-GAWollman


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