Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:41:22 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com Subject: Re: Sharing SWAP between FreeBSD versions Message-ID: <199611162041.VAA28016@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611161936.GAA25929@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Nov 17, 96 06:36:29 am"
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > >You gotta put it into a slice of its own. You'll run into more > >problems with booting different FreeBSD versions however. > > A separate slice is only necessary if you want more than 6 mountable > partitions altogether. > a: version 1 root > b: swap > c: special > d: spare > e: version 1 usr > f: spare > g: version 2 root > h: version 2 usr Hmm, i forgot about the possibility to specify a partition to boot from. > >The slice needs a disklabel, and a `b' partition therein. > > Nope. After `swapon /dev/wd0s4' (a spare partition), swapinfo says: > > Device 1024-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type > /dev/sd0b 65536 8216 57256 13% Interleaved > /dev/wd0s4 687456 0 687392 0% Interleaved > Total 752864 8216 744648 1% This didn't use to work all the time. I've tried it back in 2.0.5 or 2.1 days. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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