Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:31:47 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( Message-ID: <199603140831.JAA00619@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603140018.BAA11981@tetard.frmug.fr.net> from "Philippe Regnauld" at Mar 14, 96 01:18:04 am
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As Philippe Regnauld wrote: > Ahem -- I've had a bit of a run-in with 'clobbered partition > tables' lately. Was related to the fact that I'd repartitioned my > disk with swap at offset 0. > > First round: the first system crash dumped core... and wiped out > disklabel, booteasy :-/ I've got an open PR for it. Bruce once told me that this will only happen if the dump space is configured via the ``kernel on'' line in the config file. Adding it via dumpon(8) might be different. Swapping itself has been fixed long ago. It used to trash disklabels for more than 10 years on any BSD and derived system (e.g. Illtrix). :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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