Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:28:10 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> Cc: shamrock@cypherpunks.to, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0 without swap Message-ID: <20030111142810.490e7c13.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20030111110819.1be840f1.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> References: <00b101c2b958$007fc7b0$6601a8c0@VAIO650> <20030111110819.1be840f1.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:08:19 +0100
Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> wrote:
> Having no swap will prevent you from getting crashdumps in case of
> panic which, if you run 5.0, is not that unusual.
What about generating a swap partition on the disk, but _not_ adding it
to /etc/fstab. This way you can use the partition as a dumpdev, but
without enabling the use of the swap in the system.
Bye,
Alexander.
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