Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:28:50 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: imp@village.org (Warner Losh), bfoz@glue.umd.edu (Brandon Fosdick), Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca (Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group), stable@FreeBSD.ORG, roelof@eboa.com (Roelof Osinga) Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated Message-ID: <200011202228.OAA19805@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <200011202023.MAA19454@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Nov 20, 2000 12:23:02 pm"
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... > > Second, the amount of space wasted is nearly 0 (32k on most IDE disks, > > 64k on scsi). > > The wasted space is exactly 1 track - 1 block. Whoopsss... forgot about the waste at end of the disk, which can be quite large, and is variable upto 1 cylinder - 1 block, and can be as much as 8MB. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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