On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 1:25 PM -0800 12/30/97, David A. Gatwood wrote:
> >I don't think there was anything other than the crontab entry that did the
> >mirroring, if you want that set back up.
> 
> I'll copy it.  And wipe that disk.
> 
> >> My thanks to whoever fixed the swapper so you can just specify the swap
> >> disk in the fstab!!!  I really like using old/small disks for swap space so
> >> the seeks don't fight with other usage.  Now I don't need a custom kernel
> >> just to specify that detail.
> >
> >Whoa!  That works now?  Cool!  (*thinks about all the things this makes
> >possible; wishes his old 540 meg drive were still alive*)
> 
> Well you don't need as much as 540MB for a swap partition.  I'm using an
> old 80MB drive, paritioned completely for swap.  No MacOS, no driver, nada
> but swap.

No, that was my NetBSD drive in general.  I was going to cram swap into an
old 40 meg... but the 540 ate itself, so now the only system I can run
NetBSD on is my laptop (PB145) with its continuous fs corruption (partial
reinstall weekly, certain files seem to consistently get eaten).  As soon
as we figure out what's happenning with the IIsi from my father's office
(they finally broke down and got him a G3 PowerMac), I might start digging
for old drives and stuff.  :-)


David

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