on 25/01/2010 04:41 Robert Noland said the following: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 07:57 +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: >> offset The offset of the start of the partition from the beginning of >> the drive in sectors, or * to have bsdlabel calculate the >> correct >> offset to use (the end of the previous partition plus one, >> ignor- >> ing partition `c'. For partition `c', * will be interpreted as >> an offset of 0. The first partition should start at offset 16, >> because the first 16 sectors are reserved for metadata. > > Ok, now this has my attention... My gut feeling right now is that this > is a bug in geom_part_bsd. I don't understand why the label isn't > protected. (Adding -b 16 when adding the swap partition fixes this) > Another project to goes on my list... > > If anyone knows why this is done like this... please share.
I presume that this is for purely historic reasons. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
