Re: hibernation
From: karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)
Subject: Re: hibernation
Date: 05 May 2000 18:20:04 -0700
Message-ID: <[🔎] 87u2gca30b.fsf@bittersweet.inetarena.com>
> >>>>> "Lauren" == Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> writes:
>
> Lauren> I might add that adding in that partition might not be easy.
> Lauren> Obvious questions such as:
>
> Lauren> -- Does phdisk create the partition or just format it?
>
> It just formats it.
i think that there may be a number of different versions of phdisk out
there. the phdisk on my machine can create, format, and delete
hibernation paritions and files. e.g.
phdisk.exe /create /file
phdisk.exe /create /partition
> Lauren> -- Where does the partition need to be in relation to
> Lauren> other partitions (Win98 boot, Linux, Linux swap, etc.)
> Lauren> on the disk?
>
> iirc, phdisk has a switch that tells you how large a partition you
> need. It's got to be a primary partition. It must be as large as
> your RAM, and then a little extra room for whatever other data the
> BIOS needs to store there.
if i run phdisk w/o any arguments, i get info about how large the file
or partition should be as well as a list of possible switches. to get
info on the currently recognized hibernation files or parititions, i
use the /info option.
> Lauren> Seems like a number of possibilities for messing things up pretty
> Lauren> seriously if this sort of thing isn't known in advance...
>
> Just have to make sure it's a large enough partition. I'm fairly
> certain the BIOS will use the partion in preference to a file, if the
> partition is present. It works for sure with a Phoenix BIOS. Is
> that what your laptop has? You might try the web page of the BIOS
> company.
i had the nasty experience of having phdisk place a 132 mb hole in a 5
gig partition last week -- i was not pleased. i wish there was a way
to specify where to create the hibernation partition...it looks like
phdisk will go ahead and try to create a partition at the end of the
disk if it cannot find any space on the hard disk...what intelligent
behavior :-)
phdisk also supports the ability to reformat a hibernation partition
(from what i can tell, that's just a partition of type 0xa0 [ibm
thinkpad hibernation]) -- i read somewhere that someone created a
partition of type 0xa0 in a desired location and then just used the
phdisk reformatting capability. i wasn't able to get this to work
though.
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