Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!vsi!friedl From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: How can I have no DUMPDEV on a 3B15? Message-ID: <782@vsi.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 88 04:10:05 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 32 Hi folks, We have a 3B15 and we want *no* dump device -- how do we do this? /etc/system lets us specify the swap and dump partitions with: DUMPDEV:/dev/dsk/0s1 SWAPDEV:/dev/dsk/0s1 160992 20000 DUMPDEV is required to lie on a partition boundary, but this isn't required for SWAPDEV. We prefer to put swap at the end of a partition because to do otherwise means that partition can't be used for a filesystem, and 45MB (the smallest partition) is a pretty BMF swap area -- much larger than we need. We had a very unfortunate experience some time ago where a misspecified DUMPDEV ate our /usr filesystem, and we would very much like to avoid this in the future. I suppose I can repartition the machine to make a dump partition, but it seems like such a waste when I want to just ignore it. Anybody have any ideas? Hotline really had no idea what I was talking about. We're running Sys V Release 3.1.1, and these IDFC drives have no VTOC (fixed partition offsets). Thanks much, Steve -- Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. +1 714 545 6442 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl -------Nancy Reagan on U.S. weather agencies: "Just say NOAA"------