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From: gvrooij@mmra1.ms.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: kern/280: new slice manager totally confused about old slice disks
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:43:57 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199503290933.TAA25301@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 29, 95 07:33:09 pm
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> 
> The c partition size is rounded down while the d partition is rejected.
> These partitions are not used for normal operation (except maybe sector
> #2 of partition c to read the label) so normal operation is not normally
> affected.  Similar rounding down of the a partition (e.g.) would cause

That's a big relief. Pitty though that we'll get the warnings (pitty
because we didnt screw up anything; we just followed 2.0R's sysinstall).

> problems if the file system extends into the lost sectors.  Most such
> problems are avoided by specially handling the 50000-sector "whole
> disk for FreeBSD" partition table.

Eh? What's tyhe magic behind 50000?

-Guido