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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: swap space not first partition
Message-ID: <308@raysnec.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 91 21:18:15 GMT
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bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:

>The installation scripts wouldn't let me do it, maybe they were
>protecting me from myself.  Has anyone put swap space in the middle
>of the disk?  Any thoughts regarding whether or not this is a smart
>thing to do?  I think I know how to do it by hand, I'm curious about
>whether or not anyone has tried it.

	The old Zilog Z8000, on which I worked for several years, came
with default partitions as follows:

	partition 0: /usr   1: swap   2: root   3: /tmp   4: /z

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