On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Anne Bennett wrote:

> Good idea, but no go.  I tried it, and first of all, although the
> disk label seems to be written as I request it, the disklabel command
> complains:
> 
>   (stdin:)
>   [...]
>   7 partitions:
   ^^^
>   #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>     a:    73600        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 79)
>     b:   288880    73600      swap                        # (Cyl.   80 - 393)
>     c:  6265200        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 6809)
>     d:  6265200        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 6809)
>     e:   161920   362480    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  394 - 569)
>     f:  4607360  1127920    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 1226 - 6233)
>     g:   529920  5735280    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 6234 - 6809)
> 
>   (stderr:)
>   disklabel: warning, unused partition h: size 288880 offset 73600

I've done this a number of times. Make it 8 partitions, and things should
be happier.

Take care,

Bill