From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 9 5: 9:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate0.sover.net (mailgate0.sover.net [209.198.87.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB3737B422 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 05:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dad.state.vt.us) Received: from yoyo (arc5a301.bf.sover.net [209.198.117.111]) by mailgate0.sover.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f39C9M622067; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:09:23 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <003101c0c0ed$a4c0ba10$1201a8c0@sanmik.com> From: "Mike Barton" To: , "Pete French" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Disklabel 101? Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 08:07:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete French" To: ; Cc: Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 6:22 AM Subject: Re: Disklabel 101? > > Mike Barton types: > > > Are there any issues with placing swap first on the hard drive? Unless you > > > insist on filling the drive, it seems to me that this swap arrangement would > > > result in less stack travel. > > > > Not that I know of. In fact, I'm pretty sure that one of my systems > > has root on s2, with swap on s1, which is earlier on the hard disk. > > It doesnt work on the same disc however. Try and do an install of 4.2 > creating a swap partition, then a root partition and it fails. Or always > has in my expereince anyway. Its a bit of a nasty gotcha actually because it > is not obvious what the problem is. I can see that it probably makes sense to > have root frst then sawp (and they become a and b) so I dont do it that way > anymore, but its still worth knowing about. I've got a setup like that working now. I think the problem is that that you can't have the root partition past the 1024 logical cylinder due to BIOS issues - I surely would've liked to have been in on wrting that piece of code! Mind you, this machine hasn't swapped yet, which raises an OT question: what's the easiest way to get the machine to swap *hard*? Keep in mind that I'm still a bit leery of 'make world' ;) > The order of separate discs is not a problem. We have a Compaq server that > insists on booting from da1 rather than da0, so I have / on da1, /usr on da0 > and an interleved swap between them. Even in this case, however, I found it > necessary to put the filesystems first on each disc, followed by the swap > partitions. > > -pete. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message