On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 03:23:17PM +1100, Bruce Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The dump fills up precisely the entire 'b' partition. Since the
> > partition begins at offset 0, the dump overwrites the label at sector
> > offset 1 and any bootblocks at sector offsets 0-15. This misconfiguration
> > is handled for swapping but not for dumping.
> Thanks for clarifying, but now I have next question. Why sysinstall
> allows such misconfiguration? As I understand now the right way is
I don't know about sysinstall, but disklabel allows it because it is a
*nix utility; it does exactly what you tell it to do.
> start the disk with root partition not swap. The disklabel shown here
> was created with 4.0-20000228-CURRENT sysinstall. It seems now I'm wrong
> but I always thought the best place for swap is the beginning of disk.
> Can you please confirm that the common practise is disklabel with root
> partition in the beginning of disk?
The root partition is normally first to simplify booting. The swap
partition is normally next in an attempt to minimise seeks.
Bruce
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