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From: chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko)
Subject: Re: stock 0.1 swap not enough.
Message-ID: <1992Aug9.194851.9981@news.tu-graz.ac.at>
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References: <BsFMoo.EvF@obiwan.uucp> <1992Aug4.162010.16364@mks.com> <BsIGDv.yo@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Aug9.175542.16722@mks.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 92 19:48:51 GMT
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In article <1992Aug9.175542.16722@mks.com> 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
crw-r--r-- root/wheel 13,51 Jul  6 06:53 1992 dev/ras6d
brw-r--r-- root/wheel  4,51 Jul  6 06:53 1992 dev/as6d
.....
This is from GNU tar 1.10 (as delivered with 386bsd).

>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.

							Christoph
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