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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New hard disk Date: 31 Mar 1997 14:15:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5hogto$ai9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33326EC5.794BDF32@wolf.co.net> <33333ED7.410B@wavefront.com> <5h6c3f$1mk@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38138 brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) wrote: > It's best to have a partition before the 'b' partition as a UFS- > formated disk has enough blank space at the start for the label. > Swap doesn't (and shits all over it) - at least it used to a > few years ago. No longer. The first 64 KB of a swap partition simply aren't ever touched. Ugly, but better than killing a disklabel... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)