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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!torn!watserv2.uwaterloo.ca!watserv1!mks.com!fredw From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) Subject: Re: stock 0.1 swap not enough. Message-ID: <1992Aug11.161434.28482@mks.com> Keywords: swap Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA References: <BsIGDv.yo@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Aug9.175542.16722@mks.com> <1992Aug9.194851.9981@news.tu-graz.ac.at> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 16:14:34 GMT Lines: 27 chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) writes: >fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes: >>One problem with using tar is that it does *not* save the /dev/* whereas >>cpio does. >> >% tar tvf /tmp/dev.tar >crw-r--r-- root/wheel 13,48 Jul 6 06:53 1992 dev/ras6a >.... >This is from GNU tar 1.10 (as delivered with 386bsd). Opps. It appears I spoke too soon (I'm used to versions of tar which didn't handle devices and I didn't realize that the version with 386bsd did). >>BTW, I've seen some people mention that the swap partition must start on a >>cylinder boundary. Why ? >> >There was a bug in 0.0 that caused the system to overwrite filesystems that >were on the same cylinder. My swap partitions for 0.1 don't start on >cylinder boundaries, and I don't see any problems. But have you actually caused that swap space to be used ? I'm not running with any swap space and I don't see any problems (yet). fred -- Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.