Subject: Re: Panic!Need Xtra partition -additionalfinding
To: T@W <lsp93@xs4all.nl>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/29/1999 15:52:09
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, T@W wrote:

> Colin Wood wrote:
> >the installer and mkfs are  reporting things in blocks, which are 512
> >bytes in size, i believe.  this should explain the discrepancy, i hope.
> 
> No, i really do mean doublesized partitions in Kb's.... see
> >-in Mkfs/the Installer  604976Kb but in
> >> -FWB 302488Kb
> 2x302488=604976
> 
> in Mkfs:
> sd0b: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Unused partition' at 118 size 586
> sd0d: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Unused partition' at 528869 size 10
> sd0e: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Unused partition' at 528869 size 10
> sd1g: Usr 'NetBSD Usr' at 1201 size 604976
> sd1a: Other (FWB DRIVER COMPONENTS) 'FWB Driver Components' at 101 size 1024
> sd1b: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 606177 size 76372
> sd1d: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 682549 size 559066
> sd1e: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 1241615 size 563530
> sd1f: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 1805145 size 2627315
> sd1h: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 4432460 size 2110876
> sd1i: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 6543336 size 1510330
> sd1j: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 8053666 size 334838
> sd1k: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 8388504 size 502256
> sd1l: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 8388504 size 502256
> sd1m: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 8388504 size 502256
> sd1n: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Extra' at 8518772 size 371988
> sd1o: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Extra' at 8704766 size 185994
> sd1p: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 8704766 size 185994
> sd1q: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 8704766 size 185994
> sd2b: Swap 'NetBSD Swap' at 1277 size 195330
> sd2a: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Unused partition' at 101 size 1024
> sd2d: Other (APPLE_DRIVER_ATA) 'Macintosh' at 1125 size 76
> sd2e: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Unused partition' at 196607 size 1
> 
> and this is not right in my humble opinion.
> All these nrs. are exactly the double of the real sizes (and twice as many
> as there are in reality)

Uhm, are any of those numbers labled "Kb"?

They are in blocks, which on the drives NetBSD supports are 512 bytes
long. Thus the difference.

All is well. :-)

If there are any places where the messages say "Kb" but are really giving
block counts, please let us know!

I'd hope this is covered in the install notes, but maybe it isn't..

Take care,

Bill