Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 15:38:47 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crash partition Message-ID: <20020302153847.K66092@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020302152858.A83208@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:28:58PM -0500 References: <20020302152858.A83208@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:28:58PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote:
> After some comments from Greg Lehey during his kernel debugging
> tutorial, (to paraphrase, "you can save your panic to a UFS partition,
> but it won't be a UFS partition any longer"), I've been experimenting
> with the idea of a "panic partition" for dumpdevs. The purpose is to
> have a rapid reboot after a panic.
>
> Now, my laptop has a DOS sleep partition. Is it safe to use that as a
> dumpdev? I have to use 320meg for a sleep partition, and 321 meg for
> a dumpdev, when I could just use a 321-meg sleep/dump partition.
>
> It *seems* to work, but that means absolutely nothing in the real world.
And what's the problem with the age-old solution of using your swap
partition?
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