From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 4 13:58: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014FB37B79D for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:57:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA31651; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 09:02:42 +1100 Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 08:57:06 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Vallo Kallaste Cc: Peter Dufault , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crash in currtprio, after dumping no operating system.. In-Reply-To: <20000303120538.A14750@myhakas.matti.ee> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 03:23:17PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > The dump fills up precisely the entire 'b' partition. Since the > > partition begins at offset 0, the dump overwrites the label at sector > > offset 1 and any bootblocks at sector offsets 0-15. This misconfiguration > > is handled for swapping but not for dumping. > Thanks for clarifying, but now I have next question. Why sysinstall > allows such misconfiguration? As I understand now the right way is I don't know about sysinstall, but disklabel allows it because it is a *nix utility; it does exactly what you tell it to do. > start the disk with root partition not swap. The disklabel shown here > was created with 4.0-20000228-CURRENT sysinstall. It seems now I'm wrong > but I always thought the best place for swap is the beginning of disk. > Can you please confirm that the common practise is disklabel with root > partition in the beginning of disk? The root partition is normally first to simplify booting. The swap partition is normally next in an attempt to minimise seeks. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message