Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 03:08:21 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions Message-ID: <199501241608.DAA05264@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>2117025 1819 cyl 15 heads 77 sec >Using these figures in a disktab entry resulted in a warning saying that >partitions c,d,e exceeded end of disk. (I made them p[cde]#2117025). >So I reduced them to what 15 * 77 * 1819 calculates to, namely 2100945 >and disklabel kept silent. >Did I give away some sectors ? According to /etc/disktab, you could have used `su#2117025' in the drive entry in /etc/disktab to use the sectors at the end. There is apparently no way to see or set the correct number of sectors using disklabel -e or sysinstall. Bruce
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