The '*' means that the partition uses a partial cylinder - ie
	starts or ends not on a cylinder boundary.

	Its nothing to worry about - unless your port requires a
	compatible disklabel that must start & end on partition
	boundaries (sparc & sun3/sun3x spring to mind :)

	
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On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Nathan Gelbard wrote:

> Given:
> 
> /dev/rsd0c:
> type: SCSI
> disk: sd2213A
> label: NESTUCCA_SERVER
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 28
> tracks/cylinder: 16
> sectors/cylinder: 448
> cylinders: 2894
> total sectors: 1296512
> rpm: 4002
> 
> 3 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:  1164992      448    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    1 - 2601*)
>   b:   130624  1165888      swap                        # (Cyl. 2602*- 2893*)
>   c:  1296512        0      boot                        # (Cyl.    0 - 2893
> 
> What would be the correct size #s for a: being the whole disk minus
> the size of the swap & minus the bootsector offset. Swap
> needs to be around 80mb (40mb ram)?
> 
> I keep getting these starts on the Cyl comments, which I think means 
> they are overlapping.
> 
> Thanx,
>         Nate
>