Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 22:48:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> To: zadonick@ucsub.Colorado.EDU Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INSTALL Message-ID: <199807030548.WAA01418@ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980702161208.6806A-100000@ucsub.Colorado.EDU> (message from 187AHGaaZadonick on Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:14:54 -0600 (MDT))
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Do you really want 6 partitions? If so, what are these partitions? What are you trying to do with the disk? Look at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook100.html for a clarification of terms and more information. Don't you want the parts of the disk to be named /dev/wd0s1a through /dev/wd0s1f? A PC or DOS disk has a master partition table with room for 4 partitions. To prevent confusion these are called slices in the FreeBSD world. So, there may be only 4 entries in the master partition table. But, each of these master partition table entries, or slices, may be sub-divided for use by a specific operating system. On my computer, sd1 has 1 DOS partition, or in FreeBSD terms, 1 slice, shown with fdisk. But, there are 5 FreeBSD partitions within this slice, shown with disk label. One of these partitions, c, is the entire disk, overlapping the other partitions. # fdisk sd1 ******* Working on device /dev/rsd1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=393 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=393 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 6313482 (3082 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 392/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> # disklabel -r sd1 # /dev/rsd1c: type: SCSI disk: sd1s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 392 sectors/unit: 6313482 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 80325 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4) b: 465885 80325 swap # (Cyl. 5 - 33) c: 6313482 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 392*) e: 224910 546210 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 34 - 47) f: 5526360 771120 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 48 - 391) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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