Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:21:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Christoph Sold <christoph.sold@pk.she.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Warning: 3936 sector in last cylinder unallocated (2.2.5) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980402111751.9007V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <l03130302b148df6b9835@[194.45.219.71]>
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On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Christoph Sold wrote: > While installing FBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE from the walnut Creek CDROMs onto my > new hd, I noticed some problems inside the installation process. Since > those are completely unrelated, I'll post a few messages. Apologies for the > inconvenience. > 3 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > c: 4124736 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 340) > ------- > Ummm, why's there only one partition shown? Compatibility slices aren't supported anymore -- note disk type `unknown'. > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 65535 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4*) > b: 151456 65535 swap # (Cyl. 4*- 13*) > c: 4124736 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 256*) > =====>> ^^^^^^ what? Unused space on my precious new HD? <<===== This is normal -- partition c represents the entire slice. It's a `magic entry'. > During installation of wd2 (which is a little bit bigger than 2GB), I got > the warning: > "Warning: 3936 sector in last cylinder unallocated (2.2.5)" > Why? You selected a compatibility partition table during sysinstall. For cylinder alignment some sectors had to be left out so the table comes out right. Not that disk space is at a premium these days. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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