I am trying to document how the partitions are laid out in FreeBSD and I have noticed that the installation will place the sector offsets of the b (swap) partition before the last partition. And will also place the sector offsets of the largest partition as the last regardless to its name (ie: d or h) The question is why ? is it due to performance reasons ? or safety ? or other ? I have looked for specific documentation on this but I can't seem to find it. thanks in advance ! -nb here is an example: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 262144 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 260*) ######swap partition sectors start right befiore the d partitions sectors ######## b: 1048576 18087936 swap # (Cyl. 17944*- 18984*) c: 60036417 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 59559*) ###### d is the last in sectors but, the 3rd usable partition (a, b, d ) ####### d: 40899905 19136512 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 18984*- 59559*) e: 524288 262144 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 260*- 780*) f: 524288 786432 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 780*- 1300*) g: 8388608 1310720 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1300*- 9622*) h: 8388608 9699328 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 9622*- 17944*) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
