On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Nate Lawson wrote:

> 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.

It's always been there. the question is 
"Who has broken it?"


> 
> -Nate
> 
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