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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!wupost!uunet!email!news.univie.ac.at!news.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01!chmr From: chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Subject: Re: stock 0.1 swap not enough. Message-ID: <1992Aug9.194851.9981@news.tu-graz.ac.at> Keywords: swap Sender: news@news.tu-graz.ac.at (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: fstgds01 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria References: <BsFMoo.EvF@obiwan.uucp> <1992Aug4.162010.16364@mks.com> <BsIGDv.yo@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Aug9.175542.16722@mks.com> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 92 19:48:51 GMT Lines: 23 In article <1992Aug9.175542.16722@mks.com> fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes: >One problem with using tar is that it does *not* save the /dev/* whereas >cpio does. > % tar tvf /tmp/dev.tar crw-r--r-- root/wheel 13,48 Jul 6 06:53 1992 dev/ras6a crw-r--r-- root/wheel 13,51 Jul 6 06:53 1992 dev/ras6d brw-r--r-- root/wheel 4,51 Jul 6 06:53 1992 dev/as6d ..... This is from GNU tar 1.10 (as delivered with 386bsd). >BTW, I've seen some people mention that the swap partition must start on a >cylinder boundary. Why ? > There was a bug in 0.0 that caused the system to overwrite filesystems that were on the same cylinder. My swap partitions for 0.1 don't start on cylinder boundaries, and I don't see any problems. Christoph -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Christoph M. Robitschko | "the only man who got his work done by Friday chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at | was Robinson Crusoe."