From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 20:51:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD9E37B4CF for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:51:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA07858; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:50:57 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200011210450.VAA07858@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel In-Reply-To: <200011201458.IAA44992@KIWI-Computer.com> from FreeBSD at "Nov 20, 0 08:58:50 am" To: freebsd@KIWI-Computer.com (FreeBSD) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:50:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (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 As I recall, FreeBSD wrote: > The problem with the fdisk slices is that there is only room for 4 ... > disklabel gives us 8, no wait.. 6 if you have a swap and 5 if you don't. No, 8. You've gotta count swap as a partition. +--------------- | 8 partitions: | # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] | a: 65536 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 31) | b: 196608 65536 swap # (Cyl. 32 - 127) | c: 4192256 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 2046) | d: 3192832 999424 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 488 - 2046) | e: 65536 262144 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 128 - 159) | f: 131072 327680 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 160 - 223) | g: 131072 458752 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 224 - 287) | h: 409600 589824 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 288 - 487) +--------------- > One more gripe: why was s1 chosen to be the first logical slice and not > s0? Did we computer scientists start counting with 1 by accident? No, Microsoft and/or IBM did it. > Those who have current systems won't have to rebuild their systems or > anything, just the sysinstaller should allocate logical partition > numbers in physical order, and build the fstab in such a way. You can put them in any order you like. If you don't care (like most newbies won't) it doesn't matter. If you do care, shuffle them to your little heart's content. Just accepting that you'll break a number of utilities if you don't leave "c" as the whole slice. :-) -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message