Attachment 9755 Details for Bug 19848 – file.diff

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>Index: dumpon.8
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sbin/dumpon/dumpon.8,v
>retrieving revision 1.13
>diff -u -r1.13 dumpon.8
>--- dumpon.8	2000/03/28 15:54:32	1.13
>+++ dumpon.8	2000/07/11 09:10:57
>@@ -68,8 +68,9 @@
> .Nm
> to be verbose about its activity.
> .Sh NOTES
>-One of the system swap devices is usually chosen as the dump device, as
>-swap devices are the most likely to have the required space at dump time.
>+One of the system swap devices should be used as the dump device.  Devices
>+used for regular filesystems will probably lack sufficent space to store the
>+dump.
> .Pp
> The 
> .Nm
>@@ -106,9 +107,13 @@
> Because the filesystem layer is already dead by the time a crash dump
> is taken, it is not possible to send crash dumps directly to a file.
> .Pp
>-.Nm Dumpon
>-currently allows only devices with minor number 1 to be used as dump 
>-devices.
>+Since
>+.Nm dumpon
>+is called from 
>+.Pa /etc/rc ,
>+system panics during kernel initialisation or single-user mode will NOT
>+cause a dump.  Currently, there is no safe or reliable way to enforce
>+the creation of dumps in these cases.
> .Sh HISTORY
> The
> .Nm

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