Subject: fdisk
To: port-i386 <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Andy Ball <andy.ball@earthlink.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/04/2006 02:15:02
Hello,
During an ill-fated NetBSD install yesterday, I noticed that fdisk
seemed to be doing something odd with the "end" value specified for a
BIOS-level partition. At a screen where the start, end and size of a
partition was displayed, the value shown for end appeared to be the
first available sector /after/ the specified partition. I'm not sure
whether the same problem exists when partitioning in cylinders or mega
-bytes. For example: if I had a partition 20,859 sectors long starting
at sector 17, it ends at sector 20,875 but fdisk reports 20,876. Has
anyone else seen this?
- Andy Ball.