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Date:      Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:23:36 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "B. Richardson" <rabtter@aye.net>
Cc:        Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: swapon, ccd: device not configure, eh what? 
Message-ID:  <199807261723.KAA10982@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Jul 1998 13:14:53 EDT." <Pine.SGI.3.95.980726125536.8560A-100000@orion.aye.net> 

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> > On 26 July 1998 at 1:09, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote:
> > > Never attempt to swap on the "whole disk".
> 
> So if you had a system doing heavy I/O that kept *all* of its
> disk that had filesystems busy it would be a bad idea to
> dedicate a seperate disk to swap?

No.  Note that "whole disk" was quoted, implying a different meaning, 
in this case the "whole disk partition".  Doing anything with the 'c' 
partition is generally a Bad Idea.

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