Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 16:24:52 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdlabel question Message-ID: <41584.1052144692@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 May 2003 11:09:55 -0300." <3EB670B3.6030005@tcoip.com.br>
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In message <3EB670B3.6030005@tcoip.com.br>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: >Disklabel offsets are 0-based. It doesn't matter where the _slice_ >starts, the partition offset always has the beginning of the slice as >reference. I wish it were that simple. Unfortunately, FreeBSD <5.x adds the offset of the MBR slice to the disk-image of the BSD label :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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