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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: patch 0.2.3 BUGS ? Message-ID: <1993May3.172755.4216@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: CS References: <1993Apr29.031107.3815@sparc4.ncu.edu.tw> <C6G4H3.21o@zap.uniforum.qc.ca> <1s3841INNjg6@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <1993May3.143133.13426@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 17:27:55 GMT Lines: 37 In article <1993May3.143133.13426@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes: >In article <1s3841INNjg6@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes: > >>? I have just finished installing 0.1. I looked and found that the swap >> space does not begin and end on a cylinder boundary, and is only 5Meg. >> How do I fix this without screwing up the installation I just finished? >> >> > > I would also very much like to see if there is a way to set up a big >swap partition on the current drive without screwing up the installation, >or somehow get the installation process to ask you how large a swap space >you'd like. (Perhaps this is something in 0.1.5...?) Think about this. The entire space is currently used. In 0.1, there is NO WAY of shrinking a partition w/out losing valuable information (at least not an easy way). For those DOS (ugh!) users, that would be the same thing as saying. I want to make my C drive bigger, and shrink my D drive. You can't use a disk compression program to simulate making things bigger, you HAVE to physically use more of the disk in one partition and steal it from another partition. In 0.1, it can't be done. However, who knows what Bill has in 0.2? (I'd like to know, and soon!!) Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, work #: (406) 994-4836 | I don't think they'll catch on - home #: (406) 586-0579 | Don Hammerstrom