On Tue, Sep 03 2002 at 15:00:36 +0200, Uwe Lienig wrote:
> $ > fdisk /dev/rsd0a
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 2700 heads: 9 sectors/track: 84 (756 sectors/cylinder)
> 
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 1006 heads: 64 sectors/track: 32 (2048 sectors/cylinder)
> 
> Partition table:
> 0: <UNUSED>
> 1: <UNUSED>
> 2: <UNUSED>
> 3: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
>     start 0, size 16 (0 MB), flag 0x80
>         beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  1
>         end: cylinder    0, head   0, sector 16
> 
> I wondered why the partition 3 only takes 16 blocks. The disklabel has the
> following layout:
That's ok. This fdisk-thingie is only used by the BIOS and some other OS
like DOS and the like.

> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>   a:   131512       32     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0*- 173)
>   b:   523908   131544       swap                        # (Cyl.  174 - 866)
>   c:  2061076       32     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0*- 2726*)
>   d:  2061108        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 2726*)
>   e:  1048572   655452     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  867 - 2253)
>   f:   262332  1704024     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 2254 - 2600)
>   g:    94752  1966356     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 2601 - 2726*)
> 
> Well, may be netbsd does not care of the partition size given in the partition
> table?!
Äh - which partition table?

> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>   a:   262144        0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 116*)
>   b:   524288   262144       swap                        # (Cyl.  116*- 349*)
>   c:  8388315        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 3733*)
>   d:  7601883   786432     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  349*- 3733*)
    ^!

c and d have a special meaning. d is the 'whole disc' partition and c is
the 'NetBSD portion of this disc' partition

> I do have netbsd-pmax and netbsd-sparc running, I have some Linux boxes and
> Tru64 boxes as well. I'm not new to UNIX and the different flavours - but please
> tell what I'm doing wrong here!!!
Don't use d on i386 - use e for your filesystem.

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