Subject: Re: make some partitions
To: Jan Satko <satko@quanto.uniag.sk>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/11/1999 19:54:38
Jan Satko wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> Can someone help me with makeing partitions with disklabel ?
> I try " disklabel -e sd0 "
> And now i don't known how to make 60MB swap and 150MB /usr and 700MB
> /home and others.
> 
> example:
>   a:   205275        0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   
>   b:   131325   205275       swap                      
>   c:  2698061        0     unused        0     0         
>   d:   819825   336600     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16  
>         ^           ^
>         |           |
> this is size.       but what is this ?
> no problem.         i don't know what this number says.

                      This is the offset, so the d partition starts 336600
                      blocks from the beginning, leaving room for the b
                      partition which takes up 131325 blocks starting at
                      205275, and sure enough 205275+131325=336600.

Cheers,

Patrick