From owner-cvs-all Mon Aug 7 13: 0:56 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF1D37BCEC; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:00:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA14051; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:58:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA02006; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 20:58:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200008071958.UAA02006@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Warner Losh , Robert Watson , Josef Karthauser , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.c In-Reply-To: Message from Josef Karthauser of "Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:03:16 BST." <20000807120316.C499@pavilion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:58:11 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 10:23:25PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > : Cool. Now we just need the auto-partitioner under sysinstall to ask for > > : confirmation before whiping out a suspend-to-disk partition when > > : allocating all space to FreeBSD. Or better yet to ask if the > > : suspend-to-disk partition should be preserved, and all other space used > > : instead. > > > > Except that the suspend to disk partitions are not standard in many of > > the laptops. Librettos have missing space (and that missing space > > must be in the lower 6G or so). VAIOs I think have them. Other > > machines do things differently (some even have files on a FAT file > > system, if reports are to be believed). > > True - mine's a VAIO: > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=2584 heads=240 sectors/track=63 (15120 blks/cyl) > > [cut] > The data for partition 3 is: > sysid 160,(Suspend to Disk) > start 15120, size 408240 (199 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 27/ sector 63/ head 239 > [cut] > > > It doesn't need to be on the beginning of the disk AFAIK, but I > put it there to make my life easier (I installed a 20gb drive and > had to do some juggling around to get my old data back online.) Bah ! ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2432 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) [.....] The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 38539872 (18818 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 160,(Suspend to Disk) start 38539935, size 530145 (258 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: and it doesn't work :-( I may try writing a small program to ``shift'' my partition.... > Joe -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message