From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 00:22:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA05633 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 00:22:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA05602 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 00:21:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA28183 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:21:28 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA27393 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 09:21:26 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id IAA25720 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 08:54:14 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602010754.IAA25720@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 08:54:14 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601311842.LAA10227@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 31, 96 11:42:20 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > ...but only if the swap space physically follows the boot partition. > > Nothing mandates this. > > The kernel's automounting of swap slices "mandates" this. The kernel doesn't automount swap _slices_ at all, and even swap _partitions_ are not automounted at all. They are only mounted with an explicit swapon(8) early in /etc/rc. But i know what you mean: swapping preferably goes to partition `b', yes. (I'm not sure whether it has been allowed for other partitions during the last revamping of the swap code, but it's irrelevant.) > The default installation tools "mandate" this. No. I've installed a system a couple of days ago. The swap partition was the fourth partition, even though the installation program assigned it to the partition `b' (as i was expecting). And that was my point: the name is in no way related to the location on the disk. For sysinstall, the location on the disk does simply correlate to a ``first entered, first on disk'' scenario. Nobody tells you that you gotta assign a swap partition right after assigning root. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)