Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:03:16 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.c Message-ID: <20000807120316.C499@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <200008070423.WAA29028@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 10:23:25PM -0600 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000806235414.93194B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <200008070423.WAA29028@harmony.village.org>
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On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 10:23:25PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> : Cool. Now we just need the auto-partitioner under sysinstall to ask for
> : confirmation before whiping out a suspend-to-disk partition when
> : allocating all space to FreeBSD. Or better yet to ask if the
> : suspend-to-disk partition should be preserved, and all other space used
> : instead.
>
> Except that the suspend to disk partitions are not standard in many of
> the laptops. Librettos have missing space (and that missing space
> must be in the lower 6G or so). VAIOs I think have them. Other
> machines do things differently (some even have files on a FAT file
> system, if reports are to be believed).
True - mine's a VAIO:
******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=2584 heads=240 sectors/track=63 (15120 blks/cyl)
[cut]
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 160,(Suspend to Disk)
start 15120, size 408240 (199 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 27/ sector 63/ head 239
[cut]
It doesn't need to be on the beginning of the disk AFAIK, but I
put it there to make my life easier (I installed a 20gb drive and
had to do some juggling around to get my old data back online.)
Joe
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