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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:560 comp.os.386bsd.bugs:116 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Disklabel help needed Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1993 09:59:19 GMT Message-ID: <C3Gp2w.7D4@sugar.neosoft.com> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.bugs References: <C3A9MB.9rE@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1993Mar3.035202.11777@unet.net.com> <1993Mar5.020610.29203@tfs.com> Lines: 19 In article <1993Mar5.020610.29203@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes: > NO NO NO NO! > NEVER put the swap as teh first partition on the disk > if it decides to swap to the first blocks it'll overwrite the disklabel > and bootblocks You're kidding. The first partition doesn't skip these blocks? Now that I think of it, I guess not. OK, folks, THIS is something that *needs* to be fixed, and that *can* be easily fixed at the application level... I hope. Are there any dependencies in the boot that require any particular partition start at any particular track? System V allocates a separate partition just for stuff like this, and I think 386BSD should as well. Discussion? -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.