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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject: Re: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions
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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