On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote:
> At 08:33 PM 3/16/00 +0100, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> >If possible, you should install a small NTFS partition and a small
> >FreeBSD slice (only ``/'') below the 1023rd cylinder and use the
> >remaining space as you see fit for both NTFS and FreeBSD.
>
> Not sure if the behaviour changed, but the other gotcha is that / and swap
> must be sequential on the disk (or was it same partition/drive). There may
> have been a specific circumstance where this would blow up and am pretty
> sure that it affected 3.x and earlier.
FreeBSD supports multiple swap partitions (at least one per hard
drive) and I believe they can be placed anywhere on each disk.
Swap partitions are usually labelled as da0s1b, da1s1b, etc, whereas
root partitions are labelled as da0s1a, da1s1a, etc.
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