You have to waste an entire cylinder...
bsd labels only go by cylinders, they don't take into account sectors or
heads, unless you overlap partitions it will waste cyl 0..
But overlapping partitions is real dangerous except under osf and bsd I
think.... Linux sucks at it....
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> A quote from the INSTALL file:
>
> ”Once you start to make partitions,
> leave about five megs free at the very beginning of the drive. This is
> where you will install aboot to later on.”
>
> In my experience, leaving 2MB free is quite enough, if you want to be on
> the safe side say 3MB, but 5MB is overdoing it.
> I know, I know, hard disks are so big these days that a few megs does not
> matter, but there's still no reason to waste diskspace for no purpose.
> Feel free to speak up if any of you disagree :-)
>
>
> /Jesper Juhl
> juhl@eisenstein.dk
> http://jesper.staff.groundcontrol.dk/
>
>
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