Warning: a geometry of 116280/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect

Thomas Beer mailings at analogon.com
Sat Oct 9 08:35:44 PDT 2004


> Hmm.  If this unused slice is very tiny (less than 1% of the total
> capacity),
> it may be the remainder of the disk which unused due to the way the
> partition
> table values get rounded.
>
> I suppose I've gotten used to only being able to fit 80 or so "real
> megabytes"
> onto a "100MB drive" due to this and that (1.0e6 "MB" versus 1.05e6 "MiB",
> newfs' reserved space, etc)...

Its 63 bytes. But why is there another "boot" slice created
under 5.x and not under 4.x?

Tom


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