gpart -b 34 versus gpart -b 1024

Dmitry Morozovsky marck at rinet.ru
Sun Jul 25 09:50:45 UTC 2010


On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Adam Vande More wrote:

AVM> >
AVM> > shouldn't it start at 2049? Starting at 2048 means it starts at 2048th
AVM> > logical block which is 512 bytes off from physical block, doesn't it?
AVM> >  <http://www.asciiribbon.org>
AVM> >
AVM> 
AVM> blocks start at 0

Well, to be exact, LBA starts at 0, while sector numbers (in CHS address 
method) at 1 (which always suprized me ;)

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Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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