From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 14:43:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27B616A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BDE43FE9 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:43:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h85LhZOg025680; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:43:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h85LhZCb025677; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:43:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200309052143.h85LhZCb025677@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: jleone@pacbell.net (James Leone) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:43:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <3F58FDF6.3030707@pacbell.net> from "James Leone" at Sep 05, 2003 02:19:50 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:43:38 -0000 > > I have come accross a few possible bugs or errors while using FreeBSD > 5.1-Current. I wrote them down and thought I would at least pass on the > information per chance it would help someone, etc. I know that some of > the errors could just be me, etc. > > FreeBSD 5.1-Current Possible bugs: > > 1. When I installed FreeBSD on my machine at work, I had 10 GB of 80 GB > available for it on a partitioned hard disk. I set up FreeBSD to only > have two slices in the partition, one for swap, which was 300 MB, and > the remaining 9700 MB was allocated for the / slice. However, when I was > in FreeBSD's Fdisk utility, I could not set up a slice larger than 9499 > MB, or else the creation of the slices would fail, and so would the > installation. First of all, your terminology is backwards. The slice is the main unit which is then divided in to partitions for such as root and /usr or whatever. eg you have a 10GB FreeBSD slice which you want to divide in to a 9700 MB root partition and a 300 MB swap partition. Second, this all may be due to different ways of expressing the math of disk units. What actual size in blocks is your 10 GB slice and how big in blocks are your 300 MB and 9700 MG partitions? Also, one virtual cylinder will be eaten for the boot records. ////jerry