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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: A question about swap
Keywords: swap
Message-ID: <22529@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 08:58:55 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.184609.21178@mlb.semi.harris.com> <967@lhdsy1.chevron.com>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <967@lhdsy1.chevron.com> yzarn@lhdsy1.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille) writes:
> In article <1991Jun14.184609.21178@mlb.semi.harris.com> dcb@dave.mis.semi.harris.com writes:
> >On one of our 5500s, we have configured over 500M of swap space. Someone
> >recommended using the 'a' and 'b' partitions over five drives, with the
> >a/b partitions combined into a larger 'a' partition.
> ... deleted text...

> I was told once to *never* mess up with the a partition of a disk.
> Forget about the 16Meg you will be loosing.

This is rather simplistic - the better advice is to warn people not
to mess with disk paritions at all, *unless* they understand the
consequences of changing the different parititions and how to
recover from a mistake...

Also, I don't consider the 16MB-byte wasted, there are lots of
good uses for "spare" "a" and "b" paritions if you don't need them
for swapping or root partitions.

-- 
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