From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 15:58:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A9F16A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:58:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mtaw4.prodigy.net (mtaw4.prodigy.net [64.164.98.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E4943FE9 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:58:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jleone@pacbell.net) Received: from pacbell.net (adsl-66-124-255-103.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [66.124.255.103]) by mtaw4.prodigy.net (8.12.9/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h85MwhpW026521; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3F591397.7040606@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:52:07 -0700 From: James Leone User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jerry McAllister References: <200309052143.h85LhZCb025677@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 22:58:47 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: >>I have come accross a few possible bugs or errors while using FreeBSD >>5.1-Current. I wrote them down and thought I would at least pass on the >>information per chance it would help someone, etc. I know that some of >>the errors could just be me, etc. >> >>FreeBSD 5.1-Current Possible bugs: >> >>1. When I installed FreeBSD on my machine at work, I had 10 GB of 80 GB >>available for it on a partitioned hard disk. I set up FreeBSD to only >>have two slices in the partition, one for swap, which was 300 MB, and >>the remaining 9700 MB was allocated for the / slice. However, when I was >>in FreeBSD's Fdisk utility, I could not set up a slice larger than 9499 >>MB, or else the creation of the slices would fail, and so would the >>installation. >> >> > >First of all, your terminology is backwards. The slice is the >main unit which is then divided in to partitions for such as root >and /usr or whatever. eg you have a 10GB FreeBSD slice which >you want to divide in to a 9700 MB root partition and a 300 MB swap >partition. > >Second, this all may be due to different ways of expressing the >math of disk units. What actual size in blocks is your 10 GB >slice and how big in blocks are your 300 MB and 9700 MG partitions? >Also, one virtual cylinder will be eaten for the boot records. > >////jerry > I don't know the answer to that question. If there is a problem, I hope it will be fixed. James Leone