From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 9 15:31:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E5D16A4CE for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 15:31:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6445D43D39 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 15:31:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-246-51.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.246.51]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i99FVaYO095186 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 9 Oct 2004 11:31:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41680450.4030305@mac.com> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:31:28 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mailings@analogon.com References: <1095.217.228.223.115.1097310516.squirrel@217.228.223.115> <4167E442.7090302@mac.com> <1048.62.225.227.11.1097332488.squirrel@62.225.227.11> In-Reply-To: <1048.62.225.227.11.1097332488.squirrel@62.225.227.11> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.5 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 15:31:41 -0000 Thomas Beer wrote: [ ... ] > What seems strange between 4.x and 5.x in the fdisk partition > table is, after deleting the slice yet to install FBSD > and create a FBSD slice 4.x simple deletes and creates the > slice, 5.x adds an additional unused "slice". Hmm. If this unused slice is very tiny (less than 1% of the total capacity), it may be the remainder of the disk which unused due to the way the partition table values get rounded. I suppose I've gotten used to only being able to fit 80 or so "real megabytes" onto a "100MB drive" due to this and that (1.0e6 "MB" versus 1.05e6 "MiB", newfs' reserved space, etc)... -- -Chuck