jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca (John Nemeth) writes:

> On Jul 29,  9:08am, seebs@plethora.net wrote:
> } 
> } Can we *please* get 16 partitions on i386?  I'm already using a, e, f, g, and
> } h for "real" partitions.  If 'b' is reserved for swap, 'c' is reserved for
> 
>      Although, b is traditionally used for swap, it is in no way
> reserved.  You can put swap anywhere you want (including in files) and
> you can use b for anything you want.

However, the kernel will try to dump to partition b if you don't tell
it not to.

If you don't have an actual partition devoted to swap, you should put
something like

config   netbsd  root on sd0a type ffs dumps on none

in your kernel config file.

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