Subject: Disk Partitioning
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/13/1997 18:26:04
(Micropolis just went out of business so if you have any Micropolis drives
I suggest you download and archive the info for them from
www.micropolis.com in case it vanishes.)

I have 4 disks on my machine now.  Three of them have no "c" partition.  Is
this a bug?  Running the MACE-5 kernel.  From disklabel:

sd0 SCSI 0
a:      400MB   4.2BSD
b:       64MB   swap
c:      501MB   unused
d:       16KB   unknown         # Cyl 0 - 0 ?
e:       37MB   HFS

sd1 SCSI 1      No driver partition, intended as a swap disk only.
b:       80MB   swap

sd2 SCSI 2      The old macbsd.jpl.nasa.gov disk used the above for swap.
a:      214MB   4.2BSD
b:       20MB   HFS

sd3 SCSI 5      No driver, entire disk partitioned as Free Unix Slice 5.
a:      339MB   unknown         # Not formatted yet, so type is probably OK.

Perhaps I'm being perverse in labeling all my partitions the way Apple
intended for A/UX.  I intend to put Free Unix Slice 3 and 4 on sd2.

In any case it seems odd to me that I don't get c: partitions even though
disklabel clearly knows exactly how big the disk is and prints the c:
information on stderr.

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