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- Subject: [386BSD] Do I need a swap partition?
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 12:32:03 GMT
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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- Keywords: bsd swap partition swapon disklabel low-level frustration
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- Do I need a dedicated swap partition for BSD use? I have 8 MB RAM and
- plenty of HD space.
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- How do I partition and initialize a partition so that 386BSD will recognize
- it? BSD appears to read the disklabel stuff which must refer to a parallel
- dimension in which I have three overlapping partitions; or, it is wrong.
- Why is my disklabel confused, and how do I fix it?
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- Also, if you mess up your disk label, like I did once, how do you fix it
- without a low level format and a reinstall (like I did)?
- I lost everything since I installed crypt and now I know I shouldn't have
- touched it;when it booted, it couldn't find any kernel file. fsck reported
- an unallocated root inode, and then asked me if I wanted to clear hundreds
- of files, one by tedious one. So I formatted it.
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