From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 12:24:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A56DB16A420 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:24:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vadim_nuclight@mail.ru) Received: from mx3.mail.ru (mx3.mail.ru [194.67.23.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441D343D4C for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:24:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vadim_nuclight@mail.ru) Received: from [83.172.2.81] (port=15091 helo=[83.172.2.81]) by mx3.mail.ru with esmtp id 1FJV2u-000ATL-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:24:08 +0300 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:19:26 +0600 From: Vadim Goncharov X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.10.01) Personal Organization: Home X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1591151085.20060315181926@mail.ru> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: swap at beginning of slice - danger? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Vadim Goncharov List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:24:10 -0000 Hello freebsd-stable, I have 5.5-PRERELEASE server in production, booting from ad0s1: # BLOCKSIZE=512 swapinfo Device 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity /dev/ad0s1b 2097152 52872 2044280 3% /dev/ad1s1b 2097152 51952 2045200 2% Total 4194304 104824 4089480 2% # bsdlabel ad0s1 | fgrep b: b: 2097152 0 swap Previously, on a 4.11 system, swapinfo said that swap size was less than size of b: partition on a slice - it was ok, as boot sectors are located at beginning of slice. But now, sizes match exactly. What changed and is it dangerous nowadays to have swap partition at offset 0 ? -- Best regards, Vadim Goncharov ICQ UIN 166852181 mailto:vadim_nuclight@mail.ru