From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 14 00:52:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA08713 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 00:52:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA08708 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 00:52:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id AAA02929 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 00:52:05 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA05040 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:50:44 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA26020 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:50:43 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA00619 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:31:48 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603140831.JAA00619@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:31:47 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603140018.BAA11981@tetard.frmug.fr.net> from "Philippe Regnauld" at Mar 14, 96 01:18:04 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)