Date: 03 Nov 2001 13:21:29 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions regarding slices and partitions Message-ID: <23n123bleu.123@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011102202803.70464.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011102202803.70464.qmail@web14706.mail.yahoo.com>
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Wayne, I read your questions and the relevant parts of the man pages and I agree that the man pages are unclear, especially about how the various options interact (or not). Sorry, but I can't answer any of them except to say that I think that enlarging your slice (if you can restore it from backup) would be worth a try. I don't see why it shouldn't work unless fdisk does something unnecessary. Or maybe it would work only if the partitions and slices are on cylinder boundaries? I know that on Linux, I messed up my partition table royally and later set it right without messing the actual partitions. You should know that the beginning of each slice has 16 sectors before the first partition (reserved for boot stuff -- see the second para. of disklabel's DIAGNOSTICS section for some confusing hints and http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/FTL/tutorials/bootloader.txt). It seems there's nothing else in slices (besides that and partitions). If you determine how those options work, please do FreeBSD a favor and submit a PR suggesting some better wording. A man page patch is nice, but not required. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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