Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:13:14 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Losing the battle with RC1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131211140.36866-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20021213200202.D66325D04@ptavv.es.net>
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:22:10 -0800 (PST) > > From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> > > > > ad0s2 needs to be as big as main memory or dumps may overwrite the next > > partition. > > Actually, a bit bigger. But that doesn't matter as I made it 160 MB > back when this system had 128 MB of RAM. It now has 192 MB. > > I feel terribly stupid at the moment. Excuse me while I re-partition. > > Thanks for pointing out the obvious! (Although I am confused by why it > wiped the root partition which is BEFORE swap.) BTW, can anyone submit a patch that gets the size of the underlying swap parition and disables dumps if it is less than mem size (and prints a warning)? This would prevent foot shooting. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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