On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Matthew ALDOUS wrote:

> ...but during bootup I see "root on sd1e dumps on sd1b"
> 
> 	I've ensured there is no swap entry in /etc/fstab (I've never
> referred to, or used sd1b anywhere) - who/what/where is "sd1b" coming from?

That's built into the kernel; it still wants a place to put dumps,
even if you have no swap. I'm not sure what it does if it actually
needs to dump and there is no sd1b configured on the disk. I suggest
you try it before you put anything valuable on that disk. :-)

cjs
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