Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Trashed Disk Labels Under Sun OS 3.5 Message-ID: <19018@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 20:10:55 GMT References: <5253@wiley.UUCP> <3555@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <557@augean.OZ> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 15 In article <557@augean.OZ> idall@augean.OZ (Ian Dall) writes: >Well, at SysV got something right. (sort of) >I think that it is a really bad idea to have swap/mkfs etc. have special >code to skip the first cylinder if it is the "a" partition. They should not skip the first cylinder; that would be wasteful. They should (and do) skip the label sector (on 4.3BSD-tahoe). File systems furthermore skip the boot block area. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris