swap space not first partition

Ray Shwake shwake at raysnec.UUCP
Sun Apr 28 07:18:15 AEST 1991


bill at ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy) writes:

>The installation scripts wouldn't let me do it, maybe they were
>protecting me from myself.  Has anyone put swap space in the middle
>of the disk?  Any thoughts regarding whether or not this is a smart
>thing to do?  I think I know how to do it by hand, I'm curious about
>whether or not anyone has tried it.

	The old Zilog Z8000, on which I worked for several years, came
with default partitions as follows:

	partition 0: /usr   1: swap   2: root   3: /tmp   4: /z

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