Strange disk problems make the system lock up

[Godwin Stewart]

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:22:12 -0600, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote 
with a forced Reply-to: directing mail away from the list:

> The problem is that he only has the "c" partition, which is reserved to
> specifying the entire disk.

s/disk/slice/

Altho' in this case it's the same thing since the slice occupies the whole 
disk.

> He needs to use disklabel to create a partion using one of a,b,d-h.

Technically speaking, what is the difference between using the 'c' partition
and creating another partition that uses the same space - other than pure 
convention?

Quoting from man bsdlabel: "By convention, partition `c' represents the 
entire slice and should be of type unused, though bsdlabel does not enforce 
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G. Stewart - gstewart at bonivet.net

Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more
than the estimate the job will cost.
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