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To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
Cc: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>,
	freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 5.0 without swap
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Date: 11 Jan 2003 08:25:47 -0800
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Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> writes:

> Having no swap will prevent you from getting crashdumps in case of

You can configure OS to dump to a non-swap partition (one which you
don't mind getting clobbered).  See man pages for crash, dumpon,
savecore.

And like someone said, can't you just take the swap parts out of
/etc/fstab?  The OS runs OK without swap after you boot into single-user
mode.

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