Frans Pop wrote: >Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: > >>Probably putting swap partition in a different location could save me a >>bit of trouble. But on the side note, it was Solaris installer that put >>swap partition on cylinders 0-258 of the hard drive. So it looked to me >>that it knew what it was doing proposing such layout upon install. >> >> >It probably does.... for Solaris. >I think that Solaris may format/use the swap partition in a different way >than linux (and thus Debian) does. > When we'll be able to see the sources of OpenSolaris, it may as well become quite obvious. But I'd like to repeat: on running Debian system I've put a script which recreates swap every time Linux boots (btw. Solaris initializes swap itself, without any action needed).
The sript I've made is in /etc/init.d/regenswap.sh, and is symlinked to /etc/rcS.d/S09regenswap.sh. This script essentially calls mkswap for every swap partition listed in /etc/fstab, BEFORE any swapon is called. This way the swap partition is shared between Linux and Solaris and there is no need to create an additional partition for linux-style swap only. >So, the problem is that the installer "blindly" re-uses (and also formats >by default) a swap partition that starts in sector 0. >There already is some code and dialogs in silo-installer that hooks into >partman to warn about this, but that code appears to be unfinished and is >currently not used. > I don't know if it could stop me, though. I'm quite determined sometimes :-) Friendly, Wiktor Wandachowicz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
