From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 2 13:56:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13591 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:56:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eiche.pk.she.de (eiche.pk.she.de [193.98.90.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13382 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:55:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from christoph.sold@pk.she.de) Received: from [194.45.219.71] (ph071.pk.she.de [194.45.219.71]) by eiche.pk.she.de (8.8.8/8.7.6) with ESMTP id XAA03008; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 23:55:34 +0200 X-Sender: pu071@eiche.pk.she.de Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 23:42:37 +0200 To: Doug White From: Christoph Sold Subject: Re: Warning: 3936 sector in last cylinder unallocated (2.2.5) Cc: Christoph Sold , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 21:21 Uhr +0200 02.04.1998, Doug White wrote: >On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Christoph Sold wrote: >> [snip] >> 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'. I see. my fault. > >> 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'. Confusing, but makes sense. >> 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. :) Thanks Doug, that helps. One problem less to solve. -Christoph Sold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Sold, Am Bahnweiher 13, 67105 Schifferstadt, Germany; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message