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Date:      Sun, 27 May 2001 08:55:53 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: worklist_remove panic
Message-ID:  <200105270655.f4R6tqY07413@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <20010526221236.A60521@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <20010526235532.726E1380E@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> wrote:

> For some reason, sysinstall or the kernel decided to += 64k on the
> start address of the swap partition (to avoid swap clobbering the
> fdisk, bootblocks, etc at the start of the disk), but neglected to
> remove 64k from the size.

This could be undone.  Swapping has been fixed long ago to not clobber
disklabels (i. e. it doesn't start at the beginning of the swap
partition).

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http://www.sax.de/~joerg/                        NIC: JW11-RIPE
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