Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 08:54:14 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager Message-ID: <199602010754.IAA25720@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199601311842.LAA10227@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 31, 96 11:42:20 am
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > > ...but only if the swap space physically follows the boot partition. > > Nothing mandates this. > > The kernel's automounting of swap slices "mandates" this. The kernel doesn't automount swap _slices_ at all, and even swap _partitions_ are not automounted at all. They are only mounted with an explicit swapon(8) early in /etc/rc. But i know what you mean: swapping preferably goes to partition `b', yes. (I'm not sure whether it has been allowed for other partitions during the last revamping of the swap code, but it's irrelevant.) > The default installation tools "mandate" this. No. I've installed a system a couple of days ago. The swap partition was the fourth partition, even though the installation program assigned it to the partition `b' (as i was expecting). And that was my point: the name is in no way related to the location on the disk. For sysinstall, the location on the disk does simply correlate to a ``first entered, first on disk'' scenario. Nobody tells you that you gotta assign a swap partition right after assigning root. -- 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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