From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 12:51:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA09374 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:51:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA09362 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:51:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA16822; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:52:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:52:00 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601312052.NAA16822@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager In-Reply-To: <199601311842.LAA10227@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199601310912.KAA19929@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199601311842.LAA10227@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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'. On my second drive, I don't have "/" on 'a', but instead of swap on it. I suspect that folks with multiple swap partitions (which I suspect is greater than 0.1% of the folks) don't follow the same guidelines. The above statements are generally relevant to the first disk used by FreeBSD, but after that it's a crap shoot. Nate