From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 14:29:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 738BC37B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:29:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA19805; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200011202228.OAA19805@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated In-Reply-To: <200011202023.MAA19454@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Nov 20, 2000 12:23:02 pm" To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:28:50 -0800 (PST) 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) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ... > > 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