Date: Sun, 04 Aug 96 15:52:17 PST From: BRETT_GLASS@ccgate.infoworld.com To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, randy@zyzzyva.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mapped geometry vs. Actual Message-ID: <9607048391.AA839195514@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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> I think you mean BSD paritions, not "slices". A partition to DOS is a > "slice" to BSD. Maybe I do, then. But in any event, what I've noticed is that the program that creates areas for your filesystems, swap space, etc. seems to force things to "cylinder" boundaries. Which is silly, because the boundaries aren't the TRUE cylinder boundaries. --Brett
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