A question about swap
Frank Wortner
frank at croton.nyo.dec.com
Wed Jun 19 05:25:51 AEST 1991
In article <967 at lhdsy1.chevron.com>, yzarn at lhdsy1.chevron.com (Philip Yzarn de Louraille) writes:
|>I was told once to *never* mess up with the a partition of a disk.
|>Forget about the 16Meg you will be loosing.
You don't have to waste the space entirely. An "orphan" a partition makes
a handy /tmp or /var or other small filesystem. It also makes a handy spare
copy of the root filesystem. Just the thing to have around the next time some-
one accidentally types "rm -rf /". [I've seen it happen! :-( ]
Also, you can use chpt to reduce the size of the "a" partition. You just should
not get rid of it entirely. I would not suggest reducing the size of the paritition
if you intend to use it as a root filesystem, though.
Frank
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