Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:16:50 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Losing the battle with RC1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131216240.9978-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212131211140.36866-100000@root.org>
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Nate Lawson wrote: > 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. It's always been there. the question is "Who has broken it?" > > -Nate > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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