Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 18:21:23 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Disklabel at sysinstall Message-ID: <199703090121.SAA24006@seagull.rtd.com>
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Greetings!
I was just looking at the disk label on an IDE drive
on a 2.1R system. Basically:
size offset type
a 539041 75776 4.2BSD
b 75776 0 swap
c 614817 0 unused
But, sc is 1008 and nc is 609 for a "theoretical" su of 613872
(though 'disklabel' reports su as 614871).
So, the first question is, why the ~950 sector discrepancy?
Second question, why is partition c labeled as "unused"?
And, I assume the su figure should reflect the BIOS
settings of the drive (and not necessarily the drive's
size or geometry).
Lastly, is there anything that I should be wary of wrt
a manual disklabel-newfs? Should sysinstall create
entries in disktab to reflect the actual settings used
during the install (wasn't this true of earlier -- like
1.1R days -- releases)?
Thanks!
--don
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