Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:23:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: Fergus Cameron <cameron@argus-systems.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker Message-ID: <1000491799.3ba24b176d163@webmail.neomedia.it>
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> By the way, in all the books/documentation I have been RTFMing^Wreading so
> far, a Unix slice is defined as a BIOS/DOS-[like/style] partition. More
> precisely, it is one of the four entries in the partition table contained in
> the MBR (64 bytes, starting at byte 446).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My apologies. My description was obscure and wrong.
I should probably have said "[...] the MBR (which table consists of 16x4=64
bytes and starts at byte 447)."
I had in mind the value of skip/seek for dd(1). :-)
-- Salvo
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