From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 13 12:20:14 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 C57F337B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:20:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1817943ED4 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:20:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-168-4.client.attbi.com[12.232.168.4]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2002121320200900200eg4hfe>; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 20:20:09 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA10331; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:16:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:16:50 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Nate Lawson Cc: Kevin Oberman , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Losing the battle with RC1 In-Reply-To: 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, Nate Lawson wrote: > 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. It's always been there. the question is "Who has broken it?" > > -Nate > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message