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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:37:01 -0600
From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: Swap Partition First? 
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Bob Johnson writes:
> The only thing that looks out of place is that you have defined
> ad0s1-2 before ad0s1-1. I've never tested it, but perhaps this is
> causing it to get confused when calculating the disk layout? In other
> words, perhaps you should use
> 
> #1G swap followed by / on rest of disk.

	Thank you. I wondered about that. I didn't know how
smart the allocater was. Technically, when I defined ad0s1-1 as
being the rest of the disk, nothing else had been defined yet so
that should mean 100% of the disk. That's called thinking too
much.

Martin McCormick