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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:55:45 +0200
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with partition size on IDE drive and -current
Message-ID:  <23523.841391745@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:02:14 %2B0200 (MET DST)"
References:  <199608300702.JAA29378@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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> Dunno whether this is your problem, but creating a file system on the
> `c' partition is considered no good.  If you want a filesystem
> covering the entire slice/disk, run disklabel -e, clone the `c' line,
> add the 4.2BSD 1024 8192 numbers, and use the new partition for the
> filesystem.

Is there any specific reason why using the c partition is bad when you
specifically want a file system to cover the entire disk? I did this
many times with SunOS 4.1.x when I was working with that. I never saw
a problem.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no



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