Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:52:07 -0700 From: James Leone <jleone@pacbell.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1 Message-ID: <3F591397.7040606@pacbell.net> References: <200309052143.h85LhZCb025677@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Jerry McAllister wrote: >>I have come accross a few possible bugs or errors while using FreeBSD >>5.1-Current. I wrote them down and thought I would at least pass on the >>information per chance it would help someone, etc. I know that some of >>the errors could just be me, etc. >> >>FreeBSD 5.1-Current Possible bugs: >> >>1. When I installed FreeBSD on my machine at work, I had 10 GB of 80 GB >>available for it on a partitioned hard disk. I set up FreeBSD to only >>have two slices in the partition, one for swap, which was 300 MB, and >>the remaining 9700 MB was allocated for the / slice. However, when I was >>in FreeBSD's Fdisk utility, I could not set up a slice larger than 9499 >>MB, or else the creation of the slices would fail, and so would the >>installation. >> >> > >First of all, your terminology is backwards. The slice is the >main unit which is then divided in to partitions for such as root >and /usr or whatever. eg you have a 10GB FreeBSD slice which >you want to divide in to a 9700 MB root partition and a 300 MB swap >partition. > >Second, this all may be due to different ways of expressing the >math of disk units. What actual size in blocks is your 10 GB >slice and how big in blocks are your 300 MB and 9700 MG partitions? >Also, one virtual cylinder will be eaten for the boot records. > >////jerry > I don't know the answer to that question. If there is a problem, I hope it will be fixed. James Leone
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