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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