From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 30 00:34:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10475 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 00:34:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com ([207.21.168.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10446 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 00:34:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicdms.com) Received: from mail-ftp (mail.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.101]) by mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1 release PO205e ID# 0-0U10L2S100) with SMTP id AAA277 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 00:34:09 -0700 From: walton@nordicdms.com (Dave Walton) Organization: Nordic Entertainment Worldwide To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 00:34:09 -800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: fdisk slice oddities Reply-to: walton@nordicdms.com In-reply-to: <199805140024440448.02FAF632@mailgate.execpc.com> Message-ID: <19980530073409264.AAA277@mail.nordicdms.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was just setting up a new 2.2.6R system, and saw something odd in fdisk that I haven't noticed before. I'm hoping one of you can explain this to me. ("fdisk" refers to the interactive version in sysinstall, not the other one that I don't know how to use.) When I go into fdisk, it reports the disk geometry as detected during boot: 4960/16/63 If I tell it to use the whole disk, it keeps that geometry and makes the necessary slices. But if I tell it to use the whole disk in dangerously dedicated mode, it changes the geometry to 311/255/63. Is there some particular reason why dangerously dedicated mode changes the drive geometry? Thanks, Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message