netbsd-help: Re: make some partitions

Subject: Re: make some partitions
To: Jan Satko <satko@quanto.uniag.sk>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/11/1999 19:54:38

Jan Satko wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> Can someone help me with makeing partitions with disklabel ?
> I try " disklabel -e sd0 "
> And now i don't known how to make 60MB swap and 150MB /usr and 700MB
> /home and others.
> 
> example:
> a: 205275 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 
> b: 131325 205275 swap 
> c: 2698061 0 unused 0 0 
> d: 819825 336600 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 
> ^ ^
> | |
> this is size. but what is this ?
> no problem. i don't know what this number says.
 This is the offset, so the d partition starts 336600
 blocks from the beginning, leaving room for the b
 partition which takes up 131325 blocks starting at
 205275, and sure enough 205275+たす131325=わ336600.
Cheers,
Patrick