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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!gatech!concert!rock!stanford.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!sunic!aun.uninett.no!nuug!nntp.uio.no!bootes.sds.no!toreh From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BEWARE: stupid placement of swap space... Keywords: (or: Don't be stupid like me :-) Message-ID: <1992Sep30.214507.24016@ulrik.uio.no> Date: 30 Sep 92 21:45:07 GMT References: <47897@shamash.cdc.com> <1992Sep30.134121.23744@csx.cciw.ca> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Organization: Statens Datasentral A/S, SDS, Norway Lines: 5 Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.68.77.217 I think this handling of the swap partition is quite normal for BSD type systems. You NEVER put the swap partition first on the disk. The swap partition is used in a way analog to a raw device... -- tore