On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:50:17 +0200 "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Adrian Nida:] > > Maybe I don't completely > > understand disc > > geometry, but when I see end cylinders/heads/etc. with lower values > > than the > > start ones, I believe something isn't right. I even tried plugging > > in start > > values by hand. The best I could get was it to ignore my settings > > and use 0, 0, > > 0 for everything. If all you're trying to do is manipulate the partition table on an existing disk that already contains partitions (which is what it sounds like you want to do) then you should TOTALLY NOT play with the disk geometry!! There should be no need to (barring some sort of catastrophic situation) and the only good it'll do is to confuse the system even further. > So either our fdisk should be more userfriendly or the installer > should support creating slices. I am really surprised to hear that > it can't. The beta has been able to partition a disk for several months now. One reason it's still beta is that hardly anyone has tested it under DragonFly. It has seen a lot of testing under pfSense/FreeBSD, but I'm not certain whether the bugs that have been found are FreeBSD-specific or not. My guess is that they probably apply to DragonFly too, so I'm not rushing to integrate it until they've been worked out. -Chris
