Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 23:10:22 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.c Message-ID: <200008070610.XAA65870@netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200008070423.WAA29028@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000806235414.93194B-100000@fledge.watson.org> Rob
ert Watson writes:
> : On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> :
> : > joe 2000/08/06 17:26:09 PDT
> : >
> : > Modified files:
> : > sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.c
> : > Log:
> : > 0xA0 = Suspend to disk.
> :
> : Cool. Now we just need the auto-partitioner under sysinstall to ask for
> : confirmation before whiping out a suspend-to-disk partition when
> : allocating all space to FreeBSD. Or better yet to ask if the
> : suspend-to-disk partition should be preserved, and all other space used
> : instead.
>
> Except that the suspend to disk partitions are not standard in many of
> the laptops. Librettos have missing space (and that missing space
> must be in the lower 6G or so). VAIOs I think have them. Other
> machines do things differently (some even have files on a FAT file
> system, if reports are to be believed).
My toshiba tecra 8000 uses a FAT16 or FAT32 partition file for
save-to-disk. The catch is that the file has to be big enough to hold the
maximum *possible* memory for the laptop (256M in my case) instead of the
amount actually installed (64M). Anyway, as a result I didn't leave enough
space. Sigh.
Cheers,
-Peter
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Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
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