swap partition a?

From: <"Dave>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 01:08:48 EDT

I was considering the following partitions on a 1 GB disk:

partition a: 256 MB (secondary swap space)
partition g: leftover (scratch area or whatever)

But I was advised by someone to not make partition a the swap
partition because there is the possibility that the swap space,
which doesn't use a particular filesystem, could overwrite the
disklabel.

Could someone please clarify this? Is the disklabel ever in danger
of being overwritten in certain partition configurations? Should I
make the secondary swap space on partition b, and make a small
partition a? Does it matter?

Thanks in advance. -Dave Wolinski wolinski_at_umich.edu
                     University of Michigan
Received on Wed Oct 18 1995 - 06:26:30 NZDT

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