From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 17 01:01:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA00773 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 01:01:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (root@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA00765 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 01:01:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from nada (ppp5 [194.95.214.135]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA28024 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 11:06:42 +0100 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970317095354.006c0a6c@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de> X-Sender: moos@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:53:56 -0100 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Darius Moos Subject: bug in disktab-manpage Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, (if the following has already been mentioned, please excuse and ignore) a few days ago i configured my ZIP-100-SCSI drive and installed a UFS on one disk. While reading the disktab(5)-manpage (on FBSD-2.1.5) it seems that there is a minor bug in it. man 5 disktab says: ... ns num Number of sectors per track nt num Number of tracks per cylinder nc num Total number of cylinders on the disk sc num Number of sectors per cylinder, nc*nt default su num Number of sectors per unit, sc*nc default In my understandind of this (and i am everything else than a disktab-guru) the formula for "sc" should be: sc num Number of sectors per cylinder, ns*nt default ^^ with this change the formula for "su" gets also the right meaning. Maybe this is already corrected on FBSD-2.2+, i don't know. Could anyone comment on this. Darius Moos.