Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 17:58:47 -0700 From: Rick Berger <rickb@colossus.net> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Libretto hibernation trials and tribulations Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000904175714.00b1ea50@wheresmymailserver.com>
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Jonathan Towne <jontow@twcny.rr.com> probably said: > Simple.. just don't partition the last 32meg of the disk, thats what it > uses for hibernation. I believe it's not quite that simple. A friend with a libretto that was shipped with a 2gb disk partitioned to 1.6Gb found it wanted to write to the end of the 1.6gb space, so he kept losing chunks of /var when he suspended ... I haven't had problems with 4gb drives, making sure there's enough room on the end for it to write the hiber info (*mine has 64mb memory). Had a huge problem with a 12gb disk, though. The bios reports it as an 8gb drive, so it writes the hiber information at the end of that 8gb, period. After many installs and killing the /usr partition umpteen times, I finally figured out I could only use 8gb less the 64mb required for hiber. I was trying to partition around it, leaving the 64mb band in the middle of a couple of useful partitions, but the install kernel setup only allows 3 partitions on initial configuration and I ran out of patience/time to figure out how to add more partitions after installation. So, I'm running a 12gb disk as an 8gb disk, but it's stable and I can move on to productive things (lost about 3 weekends figuring this much out.) Maybe I'll get ambitious and figure out how to add a couple of more partitions when I get a breather from other things, or upgrade. rickb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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