Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:27:51 -0400 From: "Michael A. Smith" <msmith@code-fu.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: reformatting laptop & ACPI: special partitions? Message-ID: <409FBB97.5080708@code-fu.com>
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My laptop (Sony VAIO FX-101) has been happily running FreeBSD since 4.3 (it's currently running 4.9-STABLE). I've never really bothered with power management (apm, acpi, etc...), since I always use it plugged in. That may change, however. I'm wiping the hard drive and installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 from scratch, I want CardBus and Wi-Fi. I may also start fiddling with ACPI. I've read that some laptops use special partitions to store the contents of RAM when hibernating, sleeping, coma, whatever... Does anyone know anything about this? Should I make a special partition for this kind of thing? Where? (first? last?) How big? What kind of partition? (FAT32? FAT16? UFS?) As I recall, when I got the laptop, it did NOT have any special partitions (I wiped it the day that I got it and installed FreeBSD). Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!! -- Michael A. Smith <msmith@code-fu.com>
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