From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Feb 8 15:51:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA09656 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 15:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA09646 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 15:51:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA04928; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 00:51:15 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA20091; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 00:51:14 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id AAA12950; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 00:45:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602082345.AAA12950@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Help with Partitions ... Crazy soon. To: cyeager@calweb.com (Chris Yeager) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 00:45:31 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <3119E11B.41C67EA6@calweb.com> from "Chris Yeager" at Feb 8, 96 03:40:11 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Chris Yeager wrote: > > Quest: 1 Bsd partition, 1 swap, and 1 Msdos partition. Well, we call them `slices' (although you don't want a swap slice, but rather a swap partition inside the BSD slice). > I wrote this disktab entry which gives the error - > partition c: partition extends past end of unit > partition e: partition extends past end of unit > :pc#2059140:oc#0: \ > FORMATTED CAPACITY (xx SECTORS) (MB) _____1,054 j@uriah 218% echo '1054*1024*2' | bc 2158592 Makes slightly more than 2 * 1E6 sectors at all. You've tried to assign 2059140 sectors to the `c' partition of the BSD slice which, by definition, covers the entire BSD slice. This would leave only j@uriah 220% echo '(2158592-2059140)/(1024*2)' | bc 48 MB for your MSDOS slice, i doubt this is the truth. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)