Re: BSDInstaller snapshot

From: Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:45:31 +0300
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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