[TUHS] /dev/drum

[Arthur Krewat]

On 4/23/2018 6:07 PM, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 23 Apr 2018, at 21:47, Grant
> And the cretinism was that this was mid 2000s:  if you had machine that was paging the answer was to buy more memory not to arrange for faster swap space: it was solving a problem that nobody had any more.
>
>
Wow, I was going to refute this, as I don't ever remember seeing any 
Solaris box do this. However, a Solaris 8 x86 vanilla install on VMware 
I did recently does indeed have swap on the first cylinders (see below). 
A Solaris 7 x86 install does not exhibit this behavior. Now I'm 
wondering if Solaris 9 does it. A Solaris 10 box I have access to has 
swap after root, not before.

# format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
        0. c0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 22166 alt 2 hd 15 sec 63>
           /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 7,1/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0
Specify disk (enter its number): 0
selecting c0d0
Controller working list found
[disk formatted, defect list found]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.


FORMAT MENU:
         disk       - select a disk
         type       - select (define) a disk type
         partition  - select (define) a partition table
         current    - describe the current disk
         format     - format and analyze the disk
         fdisk      - run the fdisk program
         repair     - repair a defective sector
         show       - translate a disk address
         label      - write label to the disk
         analyze    - surface analysis
         defect     - defect list management
         backup     - search for backup labels
         verify     - read and display labels
         save       - save new disk/partition definitions
         volname    - set 8-character volume name
         !<cmd>     - execute <cmd>, then return
         quit
format> part


PARTITION MENU:
         0      - change `0' partition
         1      - change `1' partition
         2      - change `2' partition
         3      - change `3' partition
         4      - change `4' partition
         5      - change `5' partition
         6      - change `6' partition
         7      - change `7' partition
         select - select a predefined table
         modify - modify a predefined partition table
         name   - name the current table
         print  - display the current table
         label  - write partition map and label to the disk
         !<cmd> - execute <cmd>, then return
         quit
partition> pri
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 22166 + 2 (reserved cylinders)

Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size Blocks
   0       root    wm    1113 -  3704        1.17GB (2592/0/0)   2449440
   1       swap    wu       3 -  1112      512.18MB (1110/0/0)   1048950
   2     backup    wm       0 - 22166        9.99GB (22167/0/0) 20947815
   3 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)            0
   4 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)            0
   5 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)            0
   6 unassigned    wm       0                0 (0/0/0)            0
   7       home    wm    3705 - 22166        8.32GB (18462/0/0) 17446590
   8       boot    wu       0 -     0        0.46MB (1/0/0)          945
   9 alternates    wu       1 -     2        0.92MB (2/0/0)         1890