On 29-Jul-98 Harald Bjoroy spoke unto us all:
#  How should I disklabel this disk? I am confused, but it seems to me the
#  correct thing to do is this:
#  
#  a: Start at sector 63, end at sector 6281856, type 4.2BSD
#  c: Start at sector 0, end at sector 6281856, type unused
#  d: Start at sector 0, end at sector 6281856, type unused
#  

This would be the correct way to do things..

Just a question of curiosity to everyone out there.. Why do you offset 63
sectors into the disk?  I've never done that on any of my machines.. and it
works just peachy..

If anything.. that would seem to me like a "bad thing" because you aren't
starting and stopping on a cylinder boundary..

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    50400        0      4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 49)
  b:   403200    50400      4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.   50 - 449)
  c:  6330240        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 6279)
  d:  6330240        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 6279)
  e:    50400   453600      4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  450 - 499)
  f:    50400   504000      4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  500 - 549)
  g:  5775840   554400      4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  550 - 6279)

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Tim Rightnour    -  root@garbled.net
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