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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