From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 10:41:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359F114C80 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 10:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@dookie.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.138.232] (helo=dookie.demon.co.uk) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10Wkfk-0003Dt-0A; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:39:01 +0000 Received: by dookie.demon.co.uk via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for davidh@progmatics.com.au; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:41:13 +0100 (BST) Content-Length: 1497 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3711260C.3EFA5028@progmatics.com.au> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:41:13 +0100 (BST) Organization: Jon's Place From: Jonathan Belson To: David Hobley Subject: Re: 3.1-RELEASE Crash/FS Corruption on my Libretto Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Apr-99 David Hobley wrote: > > > Jonathan Belson wrote: > >> On 09-Apr-99 David Hobley wrote: >> >> > I was logged in to the console as root and executed zzz. This >> > successfully suspended my machine. >> > I then resumed my machine which appeared to work well. I logged out >> > and when I entered my username to log in the machine crashed and >> > completely trashed my /usr partition. To the extent I will have to >> > reinstall from scratch. >> >> You mentioned that you suspended....you did leave space at the end >> of your hard disk for the suspend operation to dump on, didn't you? >> > Ah, this could be it. When I was reading the Unix on Libretto pages > scattered around the place they indicated that the BIOS would hide that > part of the disc that it used to suspend onto. Is this not the case? Hmm, I'm not sure to be honest. The FreeBSD partitioning tool showed that I had 32 Megs space at the end of my drive so I made sure I kept it. > I just ran the installer and selected (A) for auto layout. Interestingly, > if I resized my swap partition up by 32Meg and my /usr down by 32 Meg the > installer kept claiming that the selected size was too big. Are swap and /usr adjacent? > Hmm - how much should I leave at the end of the disc? The same amount as The same as your ram is my understanding. > the memory in the machine? Is it possible to resize the partitions after > I have installed FreeBSD? That I don`t know. C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message