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Date:      Mon, 07 Aug 2000 14:33:54 +1000
From:      Mark Smith <mdsmith@bigpond.net.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.c 
Message-ID:  <9uesos8bvj2fadnq2amd4ain0rse0rd2bo@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008070423.WAA29028@harmony.village.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000806235414.93194B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <200008070423.WAA29028@harmony.village.org>

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On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 22:23:25 -0600, you wrote:

>In message =
<Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000806235414.93194B-100000@fledge.watson.org> Robert =
Watson writes:
>: On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
>:=20
>: > joe         2000/08/06 17:26:09 PDT
>: >=20
>: >   Modified files:
>: >     sbin/i386/fdisk      fdisk.c=20
>: >   Log:
>: >   0xA0 =3D Suspend to disk.
>:=20
>: Cool.  Now we just need the auto-partitioner under sysinstall to ask =
for
>: confirmation before whiping out a suspend-to-disk partition when
>: allocating all space to FreeBSD.  Or better yet to ask if the
>: suspend-to-disk partition should be preserved, and all other space =
used
>: instead.
>
>Except that the suspend to disk partitions are not standard in many of=20
>the laptops.  Librettos have missing space (and that missing space
>must be in the lower 6G or so).  VAIOs I think have them.  Other
>machines do things differently (some even have files on a FAT file
>system, if reports are to be believed).

Dell laptops have a s2d option that allows them to use fat32 space if
the s2d partition is not big enough.

Mark



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