On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 08:45:18PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:38:47PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 03:28:58PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote:
> > And what's the problem with the age-old solution of using your swap
> > partition?
>
> Is it safe, useful, and reliable to use a -stable savecore to recover
> a -current dump? Will it always be so? My gut reaction is that this
> isn't guaranteed to work properly.
>
> My laptop is configured for multi-boot, -stable and -current. While I
> want to provide solid bug reports, my laptop is a production system; I
> cannot have it down while I try to identify and fix today's Bug of
> Slow Hideous Death. (Unfortunately, my current job is not even
> vaguely FreeBSD related.) So, if -current panics, I boot -stable and
> get on with life.
>
> I'd feel better if I had a separate place to dump these until I could
> go home, boot into -current, recover the core, and get on with
> prepping my bug report.
Make a separate swap partition for each since you are going to be
using the disk space anyway if you go with another setup.
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