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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager
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In-Reply-To: <199601310912.KAA19929@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 31, 96 10:12:02 am
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> > Let me add that if the sparing sectors were moved to the end of the
> > 'a' slice, it would have two effects:
> 
> > b)	The bad sector area could be grown at the expense of decreasing
> > 	the available swap in the 'b' slice following the sparing area.
> 
> ...but only if the swap space physically follows the boot partition.
> Nothing mandates this.

The kernel's automounting of swap slices "mandates" this.

The default installation tools "mandate" this.

We can take a survey and see how many of us have swap on slice 'b',
but since that is where the install tools put it, it's probably
99.9% of us -- just like having "/" on slice 'a'.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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