Subject: Re: Dicing with disks
To: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/01/2001 13:46:54
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Andy Ball wrote:

> Okay, this is what I've managed to do with disklabel so far. I haven't
> figured out how to enter values for fsize, bsize and cpg.

Just change them in the editor. Or you not editing the label with
"disklabel -e"? You can set the environment variable ${EDITOR} to an
editor that you're familiar with if you don't like "vi".

>   c:   332258       46     4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0*- 902)
>   d:   332304        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 902)

That _might_ work, but you're better off leaving "c" as unused, and
making an "a" of the same size, of type 4.2BSD.


Frederick