From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 14 11:23:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5721A37B403 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:23:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f8EINJt04593; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:23:19 +0200 (CEST) To: Fergus Cameron Subject: Re: i dont unsterstand the disk label maker Message-ID: <1000491799.3ba24b176d163@webmail.neomedia.it> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:23:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.4-cvs X-WebMail-Company: Neomedia s.a.s. X-Originating-IP: 62.98.153.152 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > By the way, in all the books/documentation I have been RTFMing^Wreading so > far, a Unix slice is defined as a BIOS/DOS-[like/style] partition. More > precisely, it is one of the four entries in the partition table contained in > the MBR (64 bytes, starting at byte 446). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ My apologies. My description was obscure and wrong. I should probably have said "[...] the MBR (which table consists of 16x4=64 bytes and starts at byte 447)." I had in mind the value of skip/seek for dd(1). :-) -- Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message