Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 10:51:57 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: stable@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU, hackers@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, ccd@forgery.cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: ccd driver or 2.1R available Message-ID: <199601200951.KAA06747@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199601191924.NAA24673@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jan 19, 96 01:24:40 pm
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As Joe Greco wrote: > > > Oh sure. One of them is "don't use a partition that starts at a > > beginning of the slice". > I may be wrong, but isn't this because the standard disklabel leaves some > space for the BIOS partition table, just in case it's the first slice on the > disk? No, the standard disklabel leaves some space for the disklabel. :) There used to be a problem with swapping all over the disklabel in earlier BSDs (including its derivatives like Illtrix), but this has been solved since. The only problem by now is (dunno whether it's already fixed) that if you configure your kernel with ``dumps on xxx0'', it will dump over the disklabel if the swap partition starts at offset 0. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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