Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:38:41 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: phk@FreeBSD.org (Poul-Henning Kamp), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c Message-ID: <199908231738.LAA40123@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:39:39 PDT." <199908231639.JAA35380@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <199908231639.JAA35380@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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In message <199908231639.JAA35380@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: : 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.... This tickles something in my brain as well... Most laptops have a save partition that is the last max-ram-config + a little bytes that would get Very Upset if you took that away from them... Don't know how to find that, however, since it varies from laptop to laptop in an almost pathological fashion. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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