From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 7 17:15:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27146 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 17:15:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nanguo.chalmers.com.au (gateway.chalmers.com.au [203.1.96.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27128 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 17:14:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@chalmers.com.au) Received: from chalmers.com.au (carbon.chalmers.com.au [203.1.96.26]) by nanguo.chalmers.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05235 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 10:14:15 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <357B2F33.F5BFA18B@chalmers.com.au> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 10:24:19 +1000 From: Robert Chalmers Reply-To: robert@chalmers.com.au Organization: chalmers.com.au X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: re; Setting up a disklabel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So far so good with making a disktab entry. Thanks all the same. I'm using sd1, so need to say disklabel sd1 and so on. >use disklabel -r -e >and edit it to your taste. Couple of questions. The disktab entry for ba-h, is the blok size for partition (a-h), given in the man as : ba num Block size for partition 'a' (bytes) What _is_ the block size for Fbsd in this instance? The existing disktab entries give wildly different values, but all multiples of 512 ???? The most likely being 4096, shown for a maxtor running 4.2BSD So I guess it's safe to use that? also, as the disk is a second disk, I don't need a root or swap partition, just e and f, for two partitions, right? bob -- Support Whirled Peas. Business in China? China House robert@chalmers.com.au ph:61 7 49440357 fx:61 7 49578425 China House Uses Webposition to ensure Top Spot in Searches http://www.chalmers.com.au/ChinaHouse/Business/webposition To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message