From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 27 16:53:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA24709 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:53:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from yip.org (yip.org [142.154.6.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA24704 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 16:53:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by yip.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA17822; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:53:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:53:20 -0500 (EST) From: Bob K To: Doug White cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here's a simple one In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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