From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 3 11:48:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05066 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 11:48:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.leopard.com (smtp.leopard.com [209.38.114.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05055 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 11:48:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from 187@leopard.com) Received: from leopard.com (secret.leopard.com [209.38.114.114]) by smtp.leopard.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA30063; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:55:32 -0600 Message-ID: <359D2790.11794E0E@leopard.com> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 12:48:48 -0600 From: aaz <187@leopard.com> Reply-To: 187@leopard.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Dean CC: zadonick@ucsub.Colorado.EDU, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INSTALL References: <199807030548.WAA01418@ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Aaaahh, I get it so, I should define 4 master ones of adequate size to be split into muiltiple filesystems when I go to the next step of assigning the mount points? thanks Thomas Dean wrote: > Do you really want 6 partitions? If so, what are these partitions? > What are you trying to do with the disk? > > Look at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook100.html for a > clarification of terms and more information. > > Don't you want the parts of the disk to be named /dev/wd0s1a through > /dev/wd0s1f? > > A PC or DOS disk has a master partition table with room for 4 > partitions. To prevent confusion these are called slices in the > FreeBSD world. So, there may be only 4 entries in the master > partition table. But, each of these master partition table entries, > or slices, may be sub-divided for use by a specific operating system. > > On my computer, sd1 has 1 DOS partition, or in FreeBSD terms, 1 slice, > shown with fdisk. But, there are 5 FreeBSD partitions within this > slice, shown with disk label. One of these partitions, c, is the > entire disk, overlapping the other partitions. > > # fdisk sd1 > ******* Working on device /dev/rsd1 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=393 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=393 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 6313482 (3082 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 392/ sector 63/ head 254 > The data for partition 2 is: > > The data for partition 3 is: > > The data for partition 4 is: > > > # disklabel -r sd1 > # /dev/rsd1c: > type: SCSI > disk: sd1s1 > label: > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 63 > tracks/cylinder: 255 > sectors/cylinder: 16065 > cylinders: 392 > sectors/unit: 6313482 > rpm: 3600 > interleave: 1 > trackskew: 0 > cylinderskew: 0 > headswitch: 0 # milliseconds > track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds > drivedata: 0 > > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 80325 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4) > b: 465885 80325 swap # (Cyl. 5 - 33) > c: 6313482 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 392*) > e: 224910 546210 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 34 - 47) > f: 5526360 771120 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 48 - 391) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message