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        so spake Erik Sabowski (sabowski):

> i thought that leaving 63 sectors free at the start of each disk would be 
> enough room, but apparently not. when i bumped it up to an offset of 3120 
> sectors, it worked perfectly.

You need to leave at least 8192 bytes free.  This corresponds to
the BBSIZE #define in <ufs/ffs/fs.h>.

In general, it is simplest to just leave the first cylinder free.

 - todd

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