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Subject: Re: Problem with partition size on IDE drive and -current
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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