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From: perryh@marie.uucp (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Disklabel help needed
Message-ID: <1993Mar11.095507.6095@marie.uucp>
Date: 11 Mar 93 09:55:07 GMT
References: <C3A9MB.9rE@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1993Mar3.035202.11777@unet.net.com> <1993Mar5.020610.29203@tfs.com> <C3Gp2w.7D4@sugar.neosoft.com>
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In <C3Gp2w.7D4@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
+ In article <1993Mar5.020610.29203@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
+ > NEVER put the swap as teh first partition on the disk
+ > if it decides to swap to the first blocks it'll overwrite the disklabel
+ > and bootblocks
+ OK, folks, THIS is something that *needs* to be fixed ... Discussion?
The way I have handled this in SunOS is to always define an 'a' (boot)
partition starting at cylinder 0 of every disk, whether or not I intend
to make the disk bootable. For a non-bootable disk, one cylinder is
enough.
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