Is that why under 1.3 when I tried to do a disklabel it threw me into the
debugger?

The bug isn't in OpenBSD, so maybe they know how to fix it...  (on a
Centris 650)

Grant


>Grant Stockly wrote:
>> I just installed 1.4 on my Mac and I HOPE it has afew screws loose.
>
>hopefully not, that might be messy ;-)
>
>> Ok, I just made the disk and filesystems.  With nothing on any of the
>> partitions /var, /home, or /usr its reporting strange numbers!
>>
>> Currently, there are no files on partition /home except the lost+found dir.
>> It said 36% of 290MB is being used (96MB).
>>
>> Other things like /var using 364MB of the 800...
>>
>> Whats up with this?
>
>known problem.  it should even be in the faq.  we have a small problem in
>the disklabel code that no one has been able to find yet.  it seems to
>create an additive effect when doing a 'du'.  so, the usage of any one
>partition is the sum of it's own usage plus those partitions before it.
>rather annoying, but someone will find the problem eventually :-(
>
>> And btw, who do I talk to to start a port-sharc mailing list?
>
>well, you can try core@netbsd.org, depending on what you want to do...
>
>later.
>
>colin