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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 :-)
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Date: 30 Sep 92 21:45:07 GMT
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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