Re: question about paritions/disklabel

[Luca Ferrari <fluca1978%infinito.it@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost> wrote:

>> disklabel shows
>>
>> 5 partitions:
>> For some reason it says 5 partitions, but only lists 3.
>
> Yeah, that is a bit of a lie. It simply counts the highest partition
> letter, in your case e, and gets 5 that way.
>


Uhm...I don't think so, because on a virtual machine of mines it shows:

16 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:   4192256      2048     4.2BSD   2048 16384     0  # (Cyl.      2*-   4161*)
 c:   4192256      2048     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      2*-   4161*)
 d:   4194304         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -   4161*)

Moreover it does not seem to be documented that disklabel counts
partitions in such a way, but I could be wrong. Or I'm running
disklabel with different flags.

Luca