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