Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:01:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com> To: Adam Obszynski <awo@polbox.pl> Cc: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libretto again Message-ID: <14783.56625.908145.699264@kitab.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009051749500.19938-100000@krypta.office.polbox.pl> References: <20000904180620.E7325@pir.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009051749500.19938-100000@krypta.office.polbox.pl>
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Adam Obszynski writes: > >> 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 ... > >Find the right bit of disk, then leave it unpartitioned :) I had this type of problem because I allowed 64Mb (the max. memory on my Libretto 110CT) at the end of the disk. I found I sometimes had strange crashes and filesystems sometimes didn't fsck correctly, etc. I guessed it was the hibernation area because these problems only happened after I had hibernated the system. I searched on the net for information and finally found two sources which both said that the area needed to be a little bigger than 64Mb. They suggested 70Mb. Apparently there's more to store than just memory. A little processor state, etc. I repartitioned my disk with two partitions; one DOS, one FreeBSD. The FreeBSD partition doesn't include the last 9 cylinders of the disk, which gives me 144585 blocks (just over 70.5Mb). I don't see anymore problems. /raj To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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