Subject: Re: HDD-woes on Sparcstation 5
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Victor Lagerkvist <plumsaren@gmail.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/18/2006 13:18:55
On 17-Nov-2006 der Mouse wrote:
> How?  /usr/share/man contains a lot of files hardlinked together.  But
> cp -r converts multiple hardlinks to a file into multiple distinct
> files with identical contents.
Ah, I see. Have to admit I was flabbergasted for a while. tar is a better=20
alternative in this case, I guess.


On 17-Nov-2006 Tim Rightnour wrote:
>I'm not sure you want to use partition c for swap like that on sparc. =A0I=
=20
>would imagine that might cause some confusion. =A0You can rename your=20
>partitions without moving them physically with disklabel. =A0I'd advice ma=
king=20
>c look like d, move swap to b, and move b to e or d.
Like this? :
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:    500000         0     4.2BSD   1024  8192 41672=20
 b:    112000    914480       swap                    =20
 c:   1044960         0     unused      0     0    =20
 d:    392000    522480     4.2BSD   1024  8192 39200=20

Thanks for your input.