From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 11 5:28:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4960337B401 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 05:28:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com (mailout01.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E9C843F5B for ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 05:28:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd08.sul.t-online.de by mailout01.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18XLgO-0000FV-0F; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:28:16 +0100 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[80.131.117.30]) by fmrl08.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18XLgK-27MhaSC; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:28:12 +0100 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (Magelan [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0BDSBbL076197; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:28:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h0BDSBAt001468; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:28:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:28:10 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Miguel Mendez 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:08:19 +0100 Miguel Mendez 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. -- "One world, one web, one program" -- Microsoft promotional ad "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" -- Adolf Hitler http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message