Subject: Re: Disklabel(5)/(8) ??
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@edsi.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/11/1996 00:56:05
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> As a side issue, "disklabel /dev/sd2c" gives strange answers on my
> zip. When the zip is probed, it's reported as having 96 cylinders
> (each with 2048 blocks = 1 MB). But the printed disklabel only
> has 64. Partition c is 64 meg, and partition d (MacOS) is the full
> 96 MB.

This is a good argument for a disklabel, by the way.  If you code in the
partitions and geometry (however contrived :-) into the label, you don't
have to worry about the fake disklabel.

--scott