Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 07:28:10 -0500 From: starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) To: regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de!jhs@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: newfs: sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) Message-ID: <199502211228.HAA07946@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: Julian Howard Stacey's message of Sun, 19 Feb 1995 21:45:23 %2B0100
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>With system after a make world from current (of Fri 18th Feb), >While doing a: > cd /usr/src/etc > make floppies >it blew up with > disklabel -w -r -B -b /usr/mdec/fdboot -s /usr/mdec/bootfd fd0 fd1440 > newfs -b 4096 -c 80 -f 512 -i 8192 -m 0 -o space rfd0 fd1440 > Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) Newfs now ignores the disklabel and uses defaults of 1 track/cyl and 4096 sectors/track. You can override by giving explicit arguments. However, the way the changes have been made strikes me as somewhat kludgy. Would it be possible for newfs to do the following: (1) Check /etc/disktab for info on the partition. Use these parameters if available. (Put the 4096/1 stuff in here.) (2) If /etc/disktab has no info, look at the disklabel. Pay attention to these parameters if available. (3) If neither (1), nor (2), use the hard-coded defaults (4096/1). - Gene Stark
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