From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Sep 27 15:03:37 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0A6AA0AD00 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:03:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AEE71A58 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:03:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-213-32.knology.net [216.186.213.32] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t8RF3Zbk014049 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:03:36 -0500 Subject: Re: dd question References: <5606A4FF.4090105@hiwaay.net> <56073915.6030707@hiwaay.net> <20150927131036.c6b2d9ce.freebsd@edvax.de> <5607E84D.1050803@hiwaay.net> <20150927155354.7dab526a.freebsd@edvax.de> <5607F676.10307@hiwaay.net> <20150927160604.f1e1c21d.freebsd@edvax.de> <5607FA6E.5040600@hiwaay.net> <20150927164334.ccd67f04.freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <56080546.9030408@hiwaay.net> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:09:04 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150927164334.ccd67f04.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 15:03:38 -0000 On 09/27/15 09:49, Polytropon wrote: > Take the disklabel editor screen as an example. Make sure > 'c' is as big as the whole device, then take the end of > the last partition, 'a', as an offset, and add the desired > size for 'd'. Hmmmm .... My 'c' slice is *not* the size of the whole drive: [root@kabini1, /etc, 9:54:38am] 596 % bsdlabel da0 # /dev/da0: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1401120 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 c: 1401120 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit [root@kabini1, /etc, 9:54:44am] 597 % 1401120 (sectors) * 512 (bytes/sector) = 7.173734e+08 Bytes or 717-ish MB (700.56 MiB), which is what I'm seeing out of my mounted drive, not the 4-ish GB (3.61-ish GiB) it should be .... I'm guessing the drive would boot & install OK, however it is convenient to be able to log the proceedings in case of questions, that is what I am getting at .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.