Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1

James Leone jleone at pacbell.net
Fri Sep 5 15:58:47 PDT 2003


Jerry McAllister wrote:

>>I have come accross a few possible bugs or errors while using FreeBSD 
>>5.1-Current. I wrote them down and thought I would at least pass on the 
>>information per chance it would help someone, etc. I know that some of 
>>the errors could just be me, etc.
>>
>>FreeBSD 5.1-Current Possible bugs:
>>
>>1. When I installed FreeBSD on my machine at work, I had 10 GB of 80 GB 
>>available for it on a partitioned hard disk. I set up FreeBSD to only 
>>have two slices in the partition, one for swap, which was 300 MB, and 
>>the remaining 9700 MB was allocated for the / slice. However, when I was 
>>in FreeBSD's Fdisk utility, I could not set up a slice larger than 9499 
>>MB, or else the creation of the slices would fail, and so would the 
>>installation.
>>    
>>
>
>First of all, your terminology is backwards.  The slice is the
>main unit which is then divided in to partitions for such as root 
>and /usr or whatever.   eg you have a 10GB FreeBSD slice which
>you want to divide in to a 9700 MB root partition and a 300 MB swap
>partition.
>
>Second, this all may be due to different ways of expressing the
>math of disk units.   What actual size in blocks is your 10 GB
>slice and how big in blocks are your 300 MB and 9700 MG partitions?
>Also, one virtual cylinder will be eaten for the boot records.
>
>////jerry
>
I don't know the answer to that question. If there is a problem, I hope 
it will be fixed.


James Leone



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