some questions about disk partitioning and filesystems and booting

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:52:56 +0000
tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:

> OK, but doesn't it need to be at least the size of RAM if for example a
> panic happens? I thought the contents of RAM were written to swap.

	These days the default dump is a mini-dump with just the kernel
memory so you only need enough swap to hold that, but if there's no swap
(or I think if there's insufficient swap) then there won't be a crash dump.

	More details here:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>