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Date: Sun,  8 Jan 2012 17:10:04 +0100
From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Fossil defaults (again)
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:08:54AM -0500, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> this only applies to automatic partitioning.  if you set up
> partitions manually, it doesn't apply.  what do you think
> automatic partitioning should do?  should it only be of use
> for installing the distribution, or should it be of general use?

Then---when proposing a new set of installation scripts---I will modify
the scripts to catch the size problem.

>
> why not remove swap from the standard list of partitions?  it is
> a very rare machine today that needs swap, and due to the locking
> in port/page.c it's pretty easy to wedge your machine with it.
>

Since the installation is for the general case, probably swap can be
dropped.

[BTW, the scripts in sys/lib/dist/pc/inst/, for newcomers, are IMHO
opinion a good place to start to learn more about Plan9.]

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