Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:25:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Swartzendruber <druber@mail.kersur.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: swapon/savecore question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980928152410.23317A-100000@mail.kersur.net>
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(please forgive me is this is seen twice. when I sent it originally, I was not subscribed, and did so quickly, but I don't know if the mailing list SW rejects mail from non-members. anyway...) I'm a little confused about dumpon&savecore. I've read the manpages about these two, and I've looked at the /etc/rc and /etc/rc.conf stuff relating to them. I understand the concept of saving the dump in the swap partition and copying it out on reboot, but the timing has me puzzled. e.g. the 'swapon -a' is at the beginning of /etc/rc, whereas the 'savecore /var/crash' is towards the end of /etc/rc. If you enable swapping to the swap partition earlier, what keeps the dump from being overwritten before savecore can run? What am I missing? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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