From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 2 18:20:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC1F137B402 for ; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 18:20:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020303022010.UFOX2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 02:20:10 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g232K9T83347; Sat, 2 Mar 2002 18:20:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 18:20:09 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Michael Lucas Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crash partition Message-ID: <20020302182009.N66092@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20020302152858.A83208@blackhelicopters.org> <20020302153847.K66092@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020302204518.A84076@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020302204518.A84076@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 08:45:18PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 08:45:18PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:28:58PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > > And what's the problem with the age-old solution of using your swap > > partition? > > Is it safe, useful, and reliable to use a -stable savecore to recover > a -current dump? Will it always be so? My gut reaction is that this > isn't guaranteed to work properly. > > My laptop is configured for multi-boot, -stable and -current. While I > want to provide solid bug reports, my laptop is a production system; I > cannot have it down while I try to identify and fix today's Bug of > Slow Hideous Death. (Unfortunately, my current job is not even > vaguely FreeBSD related.) So, if -current panics, I boot -stable and > get on with life. > > I'd feel better if I had a separate place to dump these until I could > go home, boot into -current, recover the core, and get on with > prepping my bug report. Make a separate swap partition for each since you are going to be using the disk space anyway if you go with another setup. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message