Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 15:35:42 -0000 (GMT) From: "Thomas Beer" <mailings@analogon.com> To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect Message-ID: <1297.62.225.228.19.1097336142.squirrel@62.225.228.19> In-Reply-To: <41680450.4030305@mac.com> References: <1095.217.228.223.115.1097310516.squirrel@217.228.223.115> <4167E442.7090302@mac.com> <1048.62.225.227.11.1097332488.squirrel@62.225.227.11> <41680450.4030305@mac.com>
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> Hmm. If this unused slice is very tiny (less than 1% of the total > capacity), > it may be the remainder of the disk which unused due to the way the > partition > table values get rounded. > > I suppose I've gotten used to only being able to fit 80 or so "real > megabytes" > onto a "100MB drive" due to this and that (1.0e6 "MB" versus 1.05e6 "MiB", > newfs' reserved space, etc)... Its 63 bytes. But why is there another "boot" slice created under 5.x and not under 4.x? Tomhelp
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