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To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Mapped geometry vs. Actual 
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> I think you mean BSD paritions, not "slices".  A partition to DOS is a
> "slice" to BSD.

Maybe I do, then. But in any event, what I've noticed is that the program
that creates areas for your filesystems, swap space, etc. seems to force
things to "cylinder" boundaries. Which is silly, because the boundaries
aren't the TRUE cylinder boundaries.

--Brett