Subject: Re: NetBSD's swap partition ID
To: Zbigniew Baniewski <zb@ispid.com.pl>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/23/2006 19:36:01
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:23:42PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> I would to move my NetBSD installation to another HDD, and to
> partition that disk "manually". Amazingly, as I can see, fdisk shows
> just one, NetBSD-primary partition (id 169), and it doesn't show the
> swap-partition, although it does exist (it's activated every reboot
> anyway, it's mentioned in /etc/fstab...).
>=20
> Why so strange fdisk's behaviour? What is the NetBSD's swap-partition
> id?

it's not strange.  it's the NetBSD disklabel, iow the whole NetBSD part
of the disk.  swap is a partition inside the disklabel.

regards,

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