dd question

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 09/27/15 09:49, Polytropon wrote:
> Take the disklabel editor screen as an example. Make sure
> 'c' is as big as the whole device, then take the end of
> the last partition, 'a', as an offset, and add the desired
> size for 'd'.

Hmmmm .... My 'c' slice is *not* the size of the whole drive:

[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:54:38am] 596 % bsdlabel da0
# /dev/da0:
8 partitions:
#          size     offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
   a:    1401120          0    4.2BSD        0     0     0
   c:    1401120          0    unused        0     0     # "raw" part, 
don't edit
[root at kabini1, /etc, 9:54:44am] 597 %


1401120 (sectors) * 512 (bytes/sector) = 7.173734e+08 Bytes or 717-ish 
MB (700.56 MiB), which is what I'm seeing out of my mounted drive, not 
the 4-ish GB (3.61-ish GiB) it should be .... I'm guessing the drive 
would boot & install OK, however it is convenient to be able to log the 
proceedings in case of questions, that is what I am getting at ....

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