From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Aug 4 16:31:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA01941 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 16:31:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA01936 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 16:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA00257; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 16:30:09 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199608042330.QAA00257@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Mapped geometry vs. Actual To: BRETT_GLASS@ccgate.infoworld.com Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 16:30:09 -0700 (PDT) Cc: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, randy@zyzzyva.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9607048391.AA839195514@ccgate.infoworld.com> from "BRETT_GLASS@ccgate.infoworld.com" at "Aug 4, 96 03:52:17 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I think you mean BSD paritions, not "slices". A partition to DOS is a > > "slice" to BSD. > > Maybe I do, then. But in any event, what I've noticed is that the program > that creates areas for your filesystems, swap space, etc. seems to force > things to "cylinder" boundaries. Which is silly, because the boundaries > aren't the TRUE cylinder boundaries. sysinstall is the only thing that I know of that does this, I can put things where ever I wish with disklabel, even make them overlap... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD