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Date:      Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:41:22 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        rhh@ct.picker.com
Subject:   Re: Sharing SWAP between FreeBSD versions
Message-ID:  <199611162041.VAA28016@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199611161936.GAA25929@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Nov 17, 96 06:36:29 am"

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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> >You gotta put it into a slice of its own.  You'll run into more
> >problems with booting different FreeBSD versions however.
> 
> A separate slice is only necessary if you want more than 6 mountable
> partitions altogether.

> 	a: version 1 root
> 	b: swap
> 	c: special
> 	d: spare
> 	e: version 1 usr
> 	f: spare
> 	g: version 2 root
> 	h: version 2 usr

Hmm, i forgot about the possibility to specify a partition to boot
from.

> >The slice needs a disklabel, and a `b' partition therein.
> 
> Nope.  After `swapon /dev/wd0s4' (a spare partition), swapinfo says:
> 
> Device      1024-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
> /dev/sd0b         65536     8216    57256    13%    Interleaved
> /dev/wd0s4       687456        0   687392     0%    Interleaved
> Total            752864     8216   744648     1%

This didn't use to work all the time.  I've tried it back in 2.0.5
or 2.1 days.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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