Den 1/13/01, 12:08:07 PM, skrev Sir Ace <chandleg@wizardsworks.org>
> 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....
That's true, but then a better wording would be something like ”you have
to leave the first cylinder of your disk free” instead of specifying some
amount in MB as that value will vary depending on the nr. of cylinders on
the users drive.
But nevermind, it's no big deal...
/Jesper Juhl
juhl@eisenstein.dk
http://jesper.staff.groundcontrol.dk/
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