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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New hard disk
Date: 31 Mar 1997 14:15:20 GMT
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brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) wrote:

> It's best to have a partition before the 'b' partition as a UFS-
> formated disk has enough blank space at the start for the label.
> Swap doesn't (and shits all over it) - at least it used to a
> few years ago.

No longer.  The first 64 KB of a swap partition simply aren't ever
touched.  Ugly, but better than killing a disklabel...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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