Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 11:46:40 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: djv@bedford.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Did I screw up? Installing FreeBSD and cylinder boundaries. Message-ID: <14174.897418000@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 09 Jun 1998 08:33:58 -0700. <Pine.BSF.3.95.980609082914.26256A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.95.980609082914.26256A-100000@current1.whistle.com>, you wrote: >There need be no correspondence between cylinder boundaries and >BSD partitions. >the 'cylinder groups' used in FFS are a misnomer with historical >ties. > >There can be as many swap partitions as you want >(though at the moment they should be called 'b' (also for historical >reasons) so effectively there is only one per FDISK slice. >They have no allignment requirements. Thanks again. -- Ron Guilmette, Roseville, California ---------- E-Scrub Technologies, Inc. -- Deadbolt(tm) Personal E-Mail Filter demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/deadbolt/ -- Wpoison (web harvester poisoning) - demo: http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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