Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 01:35:38 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lockups under 3.0 sorry Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810060133100.2655-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <16575.907647721@time.cdrom.com>
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maybe it was a devfs problem. i'm going to enable them on good faith, meaning i'll be sure to tell you on irc if it eats a different partition :P (i had devfs on both machines) Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > not after the last time i enable crashdumps and mistook my /usr for my > > swap partition. sorry this is my machine at work and can't rebuild it > > My crashdumps are all working fine, but of course you still have to > not specify your /usr partition as a crashdump location. Doing that > is bad juju. Aim gun at foot. Fire until magazine is empty. That > kinda bad juju. Having always specified my swap partitions correctly, > on the other hand, and I've never had a crashdump overwrite anything I > didn't want overwritten. Not once. And I take a lot of crashdumps in > my testing, on multiple machines, using the latest -current and > -stable, so I'm inclined to blame the operator over the software in > this series of incidents since I have absolutely no reason to believe > otherwise given the evidence available for examination. > > - Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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