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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c
In-Reply-To: <199908231106.EAA49762@freefall.freebsd.org> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Aug 23, 1999 04:06:20 am"
To: phk@FreeBSD.org (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:39:39 -0700 (PDT)
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> phk         1999/08/23 04:06:20 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/i386/fdisk      fdisk.8 fdisk.c 
>   Log:
>   Add new option to fdisk: -e
>   
>   This wipes the MBR and creates slice 1 as a FreeBSD slice covering the
>   disk starting from the second track to the cylinder aligned end of the disk.
>   
>   This is the most compatibly layout we have as far as I know.

Slightly more compatible is to use cylinder aligned end - 1 cylinder,
many fdisk reserve the last cylinder of the disk for hardware diagnostics,
and I still have tools around that like to scrible out there if I tell
them to run disk last cyl diags....

>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.15      +9 -7      src/sbin/i386/fdisk/fdisk.8
>   1.30      +31 -6     src/sbin/i386/fdisk/fdisk.c


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Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25)                    rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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