From owner-cvs-all Sun Aug 6 23:10:42 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from netplex.com.au (adsl-63-207-30-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.207.30.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108F237BCE3; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 23:10:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netplex.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA65870; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 23:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200008070610.XAA65870@netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Warner Losh Cc: Robert Watson , Josef Karthauser , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.c In-Reply-To: <200008070423.WAA29028@harmony.village.org> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 23:10:22 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > In message 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 -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message