Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 17:57:51 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@ref.tfs.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, terry@cs.weber.edu Subject: Re: newfs: sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) Message-ID: <199503160757.RAA20408@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Anyway, for sliced devices, geometry(A) is stored in the label for the >> whole disk and is not necessarily related to the geometries(B) stored >> in the BSD labeled slices on the disk. You can put a 4096 * 1 geometry >> in the slices is that is good for file systems. >Uhm, is "label for the whole disk" the MBR ? No. There is a separate slice for the whole disk and a readonly label on it giving the geometry. The label format is not great for reporting geometries but I don't wan't to implement new ioctls now. Bruce
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