On Wed, 17 May 2006 08:57:02 +0200 Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:26:54PM -0400, Rong-en Fan wrote: > +> >From bsdlabel(8): > +> > +> The first partition should start at offset 16, because the first 16 > +> sectors are reserved for metadata. > +> > +> I think BSDInstaller should change to not create first slice at offset 0. ^^^^^ Yet another "bsd slice" / "bsd partition" confusion? :-) > > Grrr!!! DEFINITELY! Please, first partition at offset 16. Interesting. Sysinstall makes the first "a" partition on a slice at offset 0 and FreeBSD works properly. What is this metadata on those first 16 sectors of a slice and when this metadata is really used?Received on Wed May 17 2006 - 05:45:49 UTC
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