[SPARCbook] CPR q's and overheating disk

[Mark G. Thomas]

Hi,

> I've recently upgraded my disk to a 6gb Toshiba drive.  After three days
> of installing lots of software, the disk died.  I RMA'd the disk and got a
....

> My 2nd question is that the sparcbook stores the .CPR file when
> suspending/restoring to /export/home.  When I've installed this disk, I've
> setup the root partition to have 256Mb - ditto for /var.  I'd like to
> force cpr to store the .CPR file on either root or var.
> 
> I see /.cpr_config, however, this is a binary file.  (While I can see
> the path to the file system and the disk device, the file contains
> nulls and other binary chars that vi would mess up.) How do I change where
> the cpr module stores its stuff?

Modify /etc/power.conf to use /var/.CPR for the statefile, then run pmconfig.

This works for me, and I have submitted it for the FAQ.

-Mark



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Mark G. Thomas (Mark at Misty.com -- http://www.misty.com/)