Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,u3b.tech Subject: Re: Is the sysdump partition *really* needed on a 3B2/600? Summary: not needed Message-ID: <1070@vsi.COM> Date: 12 Mar 89 01:06:36 GMT References: <1068@vsi.COM> Distribution: comp Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 19 In article <1068@vsi.COM>, friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: > Does anybody out there know if dropping the sysdump partition > on a 3B2/600 is A Bad Thing? We have no need or desire to analyze > any crash dumps, so we've been reclaiming the space when we > repartition. Are we shooting ourselves in the foot? When all else fails, RTF Help Message in the installation script. We've since determined that is not needed. If there is no partition, crash dumps can be unloaded to floppy. It will be a bummer to use a box of floppies, but in the four and a half years we've been using the 3B2, we've never needed/wanted to take a crash dump. -- Stephen J. Friedl / V-Systems, Inc. / Santa Ana, CA / +1 714 545 6442 3B2-kind-of-guy / friedl@vsi.com / {attmail, uunet, etc}!vsi!friedl "I think, therefore I'm a yam." - me