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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] VM problem Date: 12 Jul 1994 14:34:47 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2vu9m7$kif@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <CsHBBE.4u4@pts.mot.com> <BLYMN.94Jul7131347@mallee.awadi.com.au> <1994Jul8.014548.13045@physiol.su.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <1994Jul8.014548.13045@physiol.su.oz.au>, John Mackin <john@physiol.su.OZ.AU> wrote: >In article <BLYMN.94Jul7131347@mallee.awadi.com.au>, > blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes: > >> It seems that there is a bizarre off-by-one error when you add swap >> on a second disk. [...] As far as I could see when I was >> looking at the problem the swap code uses one more cylinder than the >> disklabel specifies - [...] > >Do you mean it _overwrites_ the cylinder one past the end of the >second swap partition? Hmm, I've not looked at the code, but I've NEVER had these sorts of problems and I've swapped to 3 disks. :-) And, I've had valid partitions following all of my swap partitions. I've been running FreeBSD since well before 1.0 (*grin*) and I've never had any swap problems. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.