From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Sep 4 18: 3:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.infowest.com (ns1.infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA3BF37B422 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 18:03:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athena.colossus.net (216.190.30.165.jabba.infowest.net [216.190.30.165]) by ns1.infowest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860AC20FA5 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 19:03:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000904175714.00b1ea50@wheresmymailserver.com> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 17:58:47 -0700 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rick Berger Subject: Libretto hibernation trials and tribulations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jonathan Towne probably said: > Simple.. just don't partition the last 32meg of the disk, thats what it > uses for hibernation. I believe it's not quite that simple. A friend with a libretto that was shipped with a 2gb disk partitioned to 1.6Gb found it wanted to write to the end of the 1.6gb space, so he kept losing chunks of /var when he suspended ... I haven't had problems with 4gb drives, making sure there's enough room on the end for it to write the hiber info (*mine has 64mb memory). Had a huge problem with a 12gb disk, though. The bios reports it as an 8gb drive, so it writes the hiber information at the end of that 8gb, period. After many installs and killing the /usr partition umpteen times, I finally figured out I could only use 8gb less the 64mb required for hiber. I was trying to partition around it, leaving the 64mb band in the middle of a couple of useful partitions, but the install kernel setup only allows 3 partitions on initial configuration and I ran out of patience/time to figure out how to add more partitions after installation. So, I'm running a 12gb disk as an 8gb disk, but it's stable and I can move on to productive things (lost about 3 weekends figuring this much out.) Maybe I'll get ambitious and figure out how to add a couple of more partitions when I get a breather from other things, or upgrade. rickb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message