Re: Sun Storage Array BUG

In article <3lhf52$imq@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, Randy.Witlicki@pop.valley.net (Randy Witlicki) writes: > Continuing with this one person thread, I have received email telling > me that the Sun slice 2 / "c" partition has the Label at the beginning, > whether or not it is on a Storage Array. Why, why, why? > I apologize for maligning the Storage Array. > > Yours in pulling out hair and getting ulcers, > - Randy Where else would you put the label? It has to go on the disk someplace. By convention it's at the beginning (if you could call it that) of the disk. slice 2/c is the whole disk, so naturally the label is at the beginning. If you do a newfs on that partition, everything is fine. If you want to use it as a raw partition (for swap/ database/ whatever) you should skip the first cylinder.. You lose a MB or 2. so what... Better to lose an MB than all your format and bad block info I should think. ;) -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Doug Hughes Engineering Network Services System/Net Admin Auburn University doug@eng.auburn.edu "Real programmers use cat > file.as"