On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 11:22:10 -0800 (PST) > > From: Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > ad0s2 needs to be as big as main memory or dumps may overwrite the next > > partition. > > Actually, a bit bigger. But that doesn't matter as I made it 160 MB > back when this system had 128 MB of RAM. It now has 192 MB. > > I feel terribly stupid at the moment. Excuse me while I re-partition. > > Thanks for pointing out the obvious! (Although I am confused by why it > wiped the root partition which is BEFORE swap.)
BTW, can anyone submit a patch that gets the size of the underlying swap parition and disables dumps if it is less than mem size (and prints a warning)? This would prevent foot shooting. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
