Re: Partitions/Slices

From: Dorian Büttner (dorian.buettner_at_gmx.de)
Date: 03/29/05


Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 23:23:55 +0200

hannibalkannibal@gmail.com wrote:
> 8 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> a: 2104515 81915435 4.2BSD 2048 16384 132 # (Cyl. 5099 -
> 5229)
> b: 2104515 84019950 swap # (Cyl. 5230 -
> 5360)
> c: 74380950 81915435 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 5099 -
> 9728)
> d: 2104515 86124465 4.2BSD 2048 16384 132 # (Cyl. 5361 -
> 5491)
> e: 68067405 88228980 4.2BSD 2048 16384 16 # (Cyl. 5492 -
> 9728)
> disklabel: warning, unused partition i: size 1413615339 offset
> -2147417768
> disklabel: warning, unused partition j: size -1900006918 offset
> 402701520
> disklabel: warning, unused partition k: size 503365533 offset
> 1463353529
> disklabel: warning, unused partition l: size -1407327343 offset
> -1382830702
> disklabel: warning, unused partition m: size -2013104760 offset
> -1065155243
> disklabel: warning, unused partition n: size 402998726 offset 268977606
> disklabel: warning, unused partition o: size -400023365 offset 17760443
> disklabel: warning, unused partition p: size 1723867151 offset
> 251775107
Unfortunatly, the OpenBSD installer doesn't clean out the slice it offers to
bsdlabel. You better have a look at it (p) before adding new labels.
Greets,
Dorian



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