From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 2 11:21:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15589 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:21:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15548 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:21:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA09209; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:21:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:21:11 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Christoph Sold cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Warning: 3936 sector in last cylinder unallocated (2.2.5) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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