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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:25:29 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, root@nihil.plaut.de
Cc:        abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, tat@Spline.NET
Subject:   Re: Help, DEVFS/MFS is broken...
Message-ID:  <199809162225.IAA03009@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> I think you mean a bogus partition table.  Bogus partition tables are
>> supposed to be accepted.  Boot with -v and turn on warning messages for
>Yes, the c-partition where too big.
>But why are they supposed to be accepted?

For compatibility.  The -current slice code automatically truncates
the size of the 'c' partition to the size of the slice.  The 'c'
partition doesn't do very much except provide an alias for the slice,
so making it consistent with the slice shouldn't cause problems.

Bruce

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