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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: a question about boot-manager 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:39:49 MST."
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 20:39:11 +0100
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> > > [bad144]
> > > 
> > > > Let me add that if the sparing sectors were moved to the end of the
> > > > 'a' slice, it would have two effects:
> > > 
> > > > b)	The bad sector area could be grown at the expense of decreasing
> > > > 	the available swap in the 'b' slice following the sparing area.
> > > 
> > > ...but only if the swap space physically follows the boot partition.
> > > Nothing mandates this.
> > 
> > And who but Terry would care about optimizing something like bad144
> > anyway ???
> 
> Hello... 1024 cylinder limit... hello... old hardware... hello...

Exactly.  It works with the limitations stipulated.

One way to do this on a 1024+ cyl disk is what I did:

	make one slice which is only for your root & swap (100 Mb ?)

	make another slice covering the rest of the disk.

	run bad144 on both.

	QED: no need to mess with the code.

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