How can I have no DUMPDEV on a 3B15?

[Steve Mitchell]

friedl at vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) wrote:
#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.

I think (!) I read that you can't move the primary swap device.
The reason they let you specify anything is so you can set
up MORE swap devices.

#     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.

The kernel will dump whenever it thinks it's in trouble.
I'm not sure if you can make it NOT do this.  That would
mean something is going to get written over.

# Hotline really had no idea what I was talking about.
 
THAT'S scary.

--steve
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