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-.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993
-.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
-.\"
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-.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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-.\" @(#)b.t 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93
-.\"
-.\".ds RH "Device Defaulting Rules
-.bp
-.LG
-.B
-.ce
-APPENDIX B. RULES FOR DEFAULTING SYSTEM DEVICES
-.sp
-.R
-.NL
-.PP
-When \fIconfig\fP processes a ``config'' rule which does
-not fully specify the location of the root file system,
-paging area(s), device for system dumps, and device for
-argument list processing it applies a set of rules to
-define those values left unspecified. The following list
-of rules are used in defaulting system devices.
-.IP 1) 3
-If a root device is not specified, the swap
-specification must indicate a ``generic'' system is to be built.
-.IP 2) 3
-If the root device does not specify a unit number, it
-defaults to unit 0.
-.IP 3) 3
-If the root device does not include a partition specification,
-it defaults to the ``a'' partition.
-.IP 4) 3
-If no swap area is specified, it defaults to the ``b''
-partition of the root device.
-.IP 5) 3
-If no device is specified for processing argument lists, the
-first swap partition is selected.
-.IP 6) 3
-If no device is chosen for system dumps, the first swap
-partition is selected (see below to find out where dumps are
-placed within the partition).
-.PP
-The following table summarizes the default partitions selected
-when a device specification is incomplete, e.g. ``hp0''.
-.DS
-.TS
-l l.
-Type Partition
-_
-root ``a''
-swap ``b''
-args ``b''
-dumps ``b''
-.TE
-.DE
-.SH
-Multiple swap/paging areas
-.PP
-When multiple swap partitions are specified, the system treats the
-first specified as a ``primary'' swap area which is always used.
-The remaining partitions are then interleaved into the paging
-system at the time a
-.IR swapon (2)
-system call is made. This is normally done at boot time with
-a call to
-.IR swapon (8)
-from the /etc/rc file.
-.SH
-System dumps
-.PP
-System dumps are automatically taken after a system crash,
-provided the device driver for the ``dumps'' device supports
-this. The dump contains the contents of memory, but not
-the swap areas. Normally the dump device is a disk in
-which case the information is copied to a location at the
-back of the partition. The dump is placed in the back of the
-partition because the primary swap and dump device are commonly
-the same device and this allows the system to be rebooted without
-immediately overwriting the saved information. When a dump has
-occurred, the system variable \fIdumpsize\fP
-is set to a non-zero value indicating the size (in bytes) of
-the dump. The \fIsavecore\fP\|(8)
-program then copies the information from the dump partition to
-a file in a ``crash'' directory and also makes a copy of the
-system which was running at the time of the crash (usually
-``/kernel''). The offset to the system dump is defined in the
-system variable \fIdumplo\fP (a sector offset from
-the front of the dump partition). The
-.I savecore
-program operates by reading the contents of \fIdumplo\fP, \fIdumpdev\fP,
-and \fIdumpmagic\fP from /dev/kmem, then comparing the value
-of \fIdumpmagic\fP read from /dev/kmem to that located in
-corresponding location in the dump area of the dump partition.
-If a match is found,
-.I savecore
-assumes a crash occurred and reads \fIdumpsize\fP from the dump area
-of the dump partition. This value is then used in copying the
-system dump. Refer to
-\fIsavecore\fP\|(8)
-for more information about its operation.
-.PP
-The value \fIdumplo\fP is calculated to be
-.DS
-\fIdumpdev-size\fP \- \fImemsize\fP
-.DE
-where \fIdumpdev-size\fP is the size of the disk partition
-where system dumps are to be placed, and
-\fImemsize\fP is the size of physical memory.
-If the disk partition is not large enough to hold a full
-dump, \fIdumplo\fP is set to 0 (the start of the partition).
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