Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 22:48:16 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Subject: Re: disklabel and disktab Message-ID: <19970518224816.FA40247@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705152043.NAA01540@seagull.rtd.com>; from Don Yuniskis on May 15, 1997 13:43:55 -0700 References: <199705152043.NAA01540@seagull.rtd.com>
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As Don Yuniskis wrote: > But, I can't see where the > "missing sectors" are accounted for -- i.e. why aren't any > of the "offset" parameters set to reflect this "one track worth > of sectors"?? Because the `c' partition always covers the entire FreeBSD slice, and is relative to the beginning of the slice. Everything else is in the fdisk table(s). > Also, is there any particular advantage to *where* the > swap (or any other partition) happen to be physically located > on the disk? Split it across multiple spindles. :-) > Lastly, aren't the actual geometry related parameters for > the disktab "meaningless" for SCSI devices? Everything except su# is meaningless, should you insist on still using disktab at all. Some of the meaningless entries (ns# nt# nc#) are required though. You can invent silly numbers for them if you've got a su# entry. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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