Is the sysdump partition *really* needed on a 3B2/600?

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <1068 at vsi.COM>, friedl at vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>      Does anybody out there know if dropping the sysdump partition
> on a 3B2/600 is A Bad Thing?  We have no need or desire to analyze
> any crash dumps, so we've been reclaiming the space when we
> repartition.  Are we shooting ourselves in the foot?

When all else fails, RTF Help Message in the installation script.

We've since determined that <sysdump> is not needed.  If there is no
<sysdump> partition, crash dumps can be unloaded to floppy.  It will
be a bummer to use a box of floppies, but in the four and a half years
we've been using the 3B2, we've never needed/wanted to take a crash
dump.

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