Subject: Re: Two (unrelated, I hope) problems with MS-DOS filesystems...
To: Mirian Crzig Lennox <lennox@alcita.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/05/1999 14:34:03 
> However, the kernel will try to dump to partition b if you don't tell
> it not to.

The kernel should only try to dump onto a partition marked as type
`swap' in the label.  (Although I admit I have not checked all the
disk drivers to be sure; this is what the `generic' IDE/ATA and SCSI
code does.)