From owner-cvs-all Mon Aug 23 10:38:27 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA96315842; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:38:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA69986; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:38:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA40123; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:38:41 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199908231738.LAA40123@harmony.village.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c Cc: phk@FreeBSD.org (Poul-Henning Kamp), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:39:39 PDT." <199908231639.JAA35380@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <199908231639.JAA35380@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:38:41 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199908231639.JAA35380@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: : Slightly more compatible is to use cylinder aligned end - 1 cylinder, : many fdisk reserve the last cylinder of the disk for hardware diagnostics, : and I still have tools around that like to scrible out there if I tell : them to run disk last cyl diags.... This tickles something in my brain as well... Most laptops have a save partition that is the last max-ram-config + a little bytes that would get Very Upset if you took that away from them... Don't know how to find that, however, since it varies from laptop to laptop in an almost pathological fashion. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message