Subject: Re: where to dump?
To: Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/23/2000 10:00:55
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Antti Kantee wrote:

> On Sun Apr 23 2000 at 07:08:11 -0400, mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
> 
> > on 1.4.2 at boot time:
> > ....
> > root on sd1a dumps on sd1b
> > root file system type: ffs
> > swapctl: adding /dev/sd2b as swap device at priority 0
> > ....
> > 
> > however, there is no sd1b, the drive has no swap on it, all the swap is on
> > sd2.  Should I worry about this?  Can I change it?  Something like
> > root on sd1a dumps on sd2b 
> > sounds better.  savecore(8) didn't shed much light, but I'm not sure thats
> > the right place to look.

Check out fstab(5) and swapctl(8).
 
> You can change it (at least) either by interactively specifying it to
> the kernel at boottime or in your kernel config. It's documented in in
> arch/pmax/conf/DSG (perhaps you'll find it in your heart to document it
> elsewhere also ;).

In fstab:

/dev/sd2b none swap dp