Subject: Re: Dicing with disks
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/01/2001 01:10:23
Hello Wojciech!

  WP> no. disklabel divides for BSD and fdisk for BIOS.

Hmm... I was right the first time then, and my memory is
playing tricks on me (evidently no ECC here! ;-)  Is fdisk
peculiar to the i386 port?

  WP> don't need fdisk if you do only netbsd.

Great, one less program to figure out!  :-)

  WP> ...please remove mbr with...

Will my boot selector program survive that, or should I
re-install it before my next boot?

  WP> run disklabel -i wd0 and do only W once again

Thanks, I'll try that.

  WP> newfs -m 5 -b 4096 -f 512 -i 8192 -c 50 /dev/rwd0a
    > ...(or use -m 0 -b 8192 -f 1024 -i 32768 assuming you
    > will store large files)

Hmm, I'm not sure how large the files are likely to be. I'll
give this some thought.  Thanks.

Regards,
  - Andy.