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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!wupost!slustl!ejh From: ejh@slustl.slu.edu (Eric J. Haug) Subject: Swap space size Message-ID: <1993May17.010650.5453@slustl.slu.edu> Organization: Saint Louis University Saint Louis, MO References: <1sndra$a7d@agate.berkeley.edu>> <CGD.93May12180754@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <1ssl3hINNp2q@news.u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 17 May 1993 01:06:50 GMT Lines: 12 While NetBSD's allowing you the choice of swap partition is ok. I would prefer not having a swap partition at all. The Ridge operating system just took whatever it needed from the free space on disk, guess writing an OS in Pascal allowed that. :-) I have a tendancy to lump all filesystems in one partition. That partition contains most of the quickly needed programs the rest is on a file server somewhere, so not having to worry about any partitioning would be a win. (I am completely comfortable with hand installing NetBSD or 386BSD and determing root, swap, and usr partitions using pen and paper though it would be nice to have dc on the distribution disk ;-) ) eric