RE: Partitioning Disks on DS20

["John Helly" <hellyj SDSC EDU>]

Hi greg.
I wish I was running it. Unfortunately I don't see any c partition.  Both
the Unix-level partition table AND the BSD partition table appear to be
empty.  Do I have to do something special to see the BSD c partition?
cheers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Lindahl [mailto:lindahl@cs.virginia.edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 6:45 PM
> To: axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Partitioning Disks on DS20
>
>
> > 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
>
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