From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 13 13: 2: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from flipper.cisco.com (flipper.cisco.com [171.69.25.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E3437B423 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:02:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kitab.cisco.com (kitab.cisco.com [171.69.187.233]) by flipper.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.2-SunOS.5.5.1.sun4/8.6.5) with ESMTP id NAA28344; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from raj@localhost) by kitab.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id NAA03654; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:01:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raj) From: Richard Johnson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14783.56625.908145.699264@kitab.cisco.com> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:01:53 -0700 (PDT) To: Adam Obszynski Cc: Peter Radcliffe , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libretto again In-Reply-To: References: <20000904180620.E7325@pir.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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