From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 14 09:39:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA20871 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:39:30 -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 JAA20862 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:39:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com ([204.160.242.10]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id JAA05001 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:39:13 -0800 Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA02223; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:32:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:36:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Philippe Regnauld cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( In-Reply-To: <199603140018.BAA11981@tetard.frmug.fr.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > J Wunsch =E9crit / writes: > >=20 > > As michael butler wrote: > > >=20 > > > How does one recover from the clobbered partition table that no longe= r > > > exists after you try to install another drive with the 2.1 install di= sk ? > >=20 > > By writing down the figures before clobbering it. >=20 > =09Ahem -- I've had a bit of a run-in with 'clobbered partition > =09tables' lately. Was related to the fact that I'd repartitioned my > =09disk with swap at offset 0. =20 Is it a problem to have your swap as the first partition? I've always=20 put it there since that's the fastest part of the disk. If this is a=20 problem, that could explain why I lost our web server yesterday, and why=20 the SCSI system stopped working when I upgraded to 2.1 (you don't want to= =20 know what kind of day it was, trust me).