From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 10 14:05:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4603116A4CE for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:05:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC36D43D4C for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:05:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@code-fu.com) Received: (qmail 14615 invoked from network); 10 May 2004 17:27:25 -0000 Received: from dsl092-151-060.wdc2.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO code-fu.com) (aunchaki@[66.92.151.60]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 10 May 2004 17:27:25 -0000 Message-ID: <409FBB97.5080708@code-fu.com> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:27:51 -0400 From: "Michael A. Smith" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: reformatting laptop & ACPI: special partitions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:05:24 -0000 My laptop (Sony VAIO FX-101) has been happily running FreeBSD since 4.3 (it's currently running 4.9-STABLE). I've never really bothered with power management (apm, acpi, etc...), since I always use it plugged in. That may change, however. I'm wiping the hard drive and installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 from scratch, I want CardBus and Wi-Fi. I may also start fiddling with ACPI. I've read that some laptops use special partitions to store the contents of RAM when hibernating, sleeping, coma, whatever... Does anyone know anything about this? Should I make a special partition for this kind of thing? Where? (first? last?) How big? What kind of partition? (FAT32? FAT16? UFS?) As I recall, when I got the laptop, it did NOT have any special partitions (I wiped it the day that I got it and installed FreeBSD). Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!! -- Michael A. Smith