Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:53:20 -0500 (EST) From: Bob K <melange@yip.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here's a simple one Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981027195057.7900O-100000@yip.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981027191504.7900M-100000@yip.org>
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On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Bob K wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Doug White wrote: > > > > On my home computer, I dual-boot between Win95b and an oldish (2months) > > > -current snapshot. Now, under 95, I have a logical drive in an extended > > > partition (/dev/wd0s9) that's about 70 megs that is dedicated just to swap > > > space. The question is: If I mount this as swap under FreeBSD, would > > > this cause problems with win95? (Specifically, I don't know if win95 > > > would still recognize it as FAT16, and thus not see it at all without a > > > formatting) > > > > Even if swapon would allow you to identify a FAT partition as a swap > > partition (and I highly doubt it does), the data on the partition would be > > trashed. > > Well, the point was that the partition is already expendable (the only > thing it contains is win386.swp), and in the event of it being completely > clean win95 would simply recreate the swap file. > > I suppose I could put a format g: /autotest in my autoexec.cfg, but I kind > of view that as being a tad dangerous, given the ease in which drive > letters change. The delay at startup wouldn't be much, since the > partition is a measly 70 megs... Well, this is moot, since as you said, swapon gives me a "Device not configured" error when wd0s9 is specified. Ah well. melange@yip.org - "Slightly tacky but completely entertaining" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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