Re: Partitioning Disks on DS20

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl cs virginia edu>]

> fdisk appears to create partition extents with cylinder numbers I do not
> enter.  For example, if I try to create BSD partition a from 3-50 it does
> that.  However, if I try to create partition b from 51-1024 it assigns to
> some inconsistent range.

If I recall correctly, I had a similar problem with a disk where I
hadn't deleted the existing "c" partition, which took the entire
disk. After we deleted "c", life was better. This is only a feature of
BSD disk labels and fdisk; normal disklabels don't function like
that. I wish Compaq would teach SRM about fdisk-style disk labels...

Glad to see SDSC is finally running a decent OS on those alphas ;-)
;-)

-- g