From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 13 12:13:14 2002 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 77E5037B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:13:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rootlabs.com (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1409D43EA9 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:13:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rootlabs.com) Received: (qmail 37003 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Dec 2002 20:13:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:13:14 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson To: Kevin Oberman Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Losing the battle with RC1 In-Reply-To: <20021213200202.D66325D04@ptavv.es.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:22:10 -0800 (PST) > > From: Nate Lawson > > > > ad0s2 needs to be as big as main memory or dumps may overwrite the next > > partition. > > Actually, a bit bigger. But that doesn't matter as I made it 160 MB > back when this system had 128 MB of RAM. It now has 192 MB. > > I feel terribly stupid at the moment. Excuse me while I re-partition. > > Thanks for pointing out the obvious! (Although I am confused by why it > wiped the root partition which is BEFORE swap.) BTW, can anyone submit a patch that gets the size of the underlying swap parition and disables dumps if it is less than mem size (and prints a warning)? This would prevent foot shooting. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message