On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 09:27:26PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:29:10PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > Anyway, the above is a long-winded justification for the following
> > suggestions:
> > 1) if disklabel has already been told about '/', then it
> > should not try and reserve partition 'a' of OTHER SLICES
> > to also be '/'. The first partition created in those
> > other slices should just be labelled partition 'a'.
>
> I don't want my data partition in say sd0s4 to be `a'. `a' implies root.
> So your suggestion will irritate some.
Like me (if that counts ;-)
> > 2) similarly, if it already has swap space defined, then
> > it should not try to reserve partition 'b' of other
> > slices to be swap. The second partition defined in
> > those other slices should be labelled partition 'b'.
>
> What is wrong with having more than one slice with swap in it?
> Nothing.
On the same disk it does not make too much sense, but it should not be
illegal.
> > 4) never reserve 'a' or 'b'. Always create partitions in the
> > order people typed them in, except that WHEN someone says
> > they want to create '/', THEN both move that partition
> > to the front of the slice and name it 'a' (renaming other
> > partitions as needed).
>
> NO! Many want to put swap at the "beginning" of the disk as that is the
> fastest part of the disk. The i386 has no problems booting from a
People optimising the speed of the swap device are in a state of sin anyway.
They should go out and buy some more memory to make their working set fit
in core.
[I know.. this is taking shortcuts. ]
> partition that is not located at the beginning of the disk(slice). The
> problem with the Alpha is people try the same "trick", but it does not
> work.
No..
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