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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!tfs.com!julian From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: Disklabel help needed Message-ID: <1993Mar5.020610.29203@tfs.com> Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Berkeley, CA - 94704 References: <C3A9MB.9rE@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1993Mar3.035202.11777@unet.net.com> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 02:06:10 GMT Lines: 38 In article <1993Mar3.035202.11777@unet.net.com> dsilvia@blunt.net.com () writes: >In article <C3A9MB.9rE@ccu.umanitoba.ca> hmomar@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Hadi M. Omar) writes: >> Hello I have a Seagate ST3283 IDE hard drive its 245 megs and has >>978 cyls 14 heads and 35 sec/tracks. Could someone please help me >>set up a disklabel for this drive? I would like to have 2 100 meg or so >>partitions and a 20 meg swap partition. Any help would be greatly >>appreciated. I should also mention this is my second drive wd1. >> > > >Here is a disklabel which ought to at least get you started. It has a 20+Meg >swap at offset 0 and 220+Meg beyond that. I'm not real sure about the cpg >(cylinders per group). Maybe others can comment and we can all learn some >more. :*> [deleted] >track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds >drivedata: 0 > >3 partitions: ># size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a: 440020 39200 4.2BSD 1024 8192 14 # (Cyl. 80 - 896) > b: 39200 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 80) > c: 479220 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 976) NO NO NO NO! NEVER put the swap as teh first partition on the disk if it decides to swap to the first blocks it'll overwrite the disklabel and bootblocks the filesystesm skip the first 8k of their partitions just for this reason.. the swap might do this on some systems too (maybe 386bsd I'm not sure) but I wouldn't count on it as a matter of fact. > > >Dave S. julian