Summary: swap partition fstype?

From: Amy E. Skowronek <amy_at_aloha.nascom.nasa.gov>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 11:24:41 -0400

My question was:

>
> While trying to track down the cause of recent hardware errors,
> I found inconsistencies in the disklabels of our disks. For
> the fstype of the swap partition, I find either "4.2BSD" or
> "unused" in DU3.2x machines, and "swap" in the DU4.0 machine.
>
> Does DU care what fstype is listed for the swap partition?
> And if so, what do I do? I could edit the disklabel easily
> enough, but does something need to be done to the disk?
>

To summarize: "unused" is the correct fstype for 3.2x, and "swap"
is the new 4.0 fstype, but it doesn't much matter.

Thanks to those who replied:

alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.)
baranowskit_at_gdynia_at_genesis.prokom.gdynia.pl
Dave Parker <djp_at_unx.dec.com>
Lucien_HERCAUD_at_paribas.com (Lucien HERCAUD)



-Amy Skowronek
Received on Mon Aug 19 1996 - 17:48:07 NZST

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