Re: swapon vs savecore dilemma

2003-09-02 Thread Doug Barton
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:58:40AM -0600 I heard the voice of > Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: > > > > I still think that the real problem is in running swapon before > > savecore. In 99% of the cases out there, RAM scales with storage, > > so I

Re: Question related to FreeBSD Serial Console...

2003-09-02 Thread John Birrell
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:29:09PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > At one time I was working on patches to the loader to make the console > speed configurable. At the time, at least, I didn't see any evidence > that the settings were stored in the boot0 block, but maybe I was wrong. AFAIK, the boot0 b

Re: .fsck_snapshot file

2003-09-02 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I have a file .fsck_snapshot in /usr (of 7 GB ?!) > -r 1 root wheel 7220781056 Aug 22 18:08 .fsck_snapshot As long as it isn't mounted it should be safe to remove. -- Doug White| FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL

Re: swapon vs savecore dilemma

2003-09-02 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:58:40AM -0600 I heard the voice of Scott Long, and lo! it spake thus: > > I still think that the real problem is in running swapon before > savecore. In 99% of the cases out there, RAM scales with storage, > so I really can't imaging fsck needing to swap, and certainly

swapon vs savecore dilemma

2003-09-02 Thread Doug White
Hey folks, It looks like we may need to rethink the way swap is mounted at boot time if we want crashdumps to work. Recently(?), a change was made so you can no longer open a swap partition read/write after it is activated with swapon(8). In the current boot sequence, swap is mounted before the

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