From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 16 12:52:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA17838 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 12:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA17832 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 12:52:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA25959; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:51:51 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA14205; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:51:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id VAA28016; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:41:22 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611162041.VAA28016@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Sharing SWAP between FreeBSD versions To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:41:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: rhh@ct.picker.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611161936.GAA25929@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Nov 17, 96 06:36:29 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)