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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk
To: dave@kachina.jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes)
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> >I hope neither swap is at the front of a disk
> 
> Why?

There are known problems with crashdumping, if enabled, with partitions
that start at offset 0 in a labelled section (and the first slice on
the disk is at offset 0).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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