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In article <1992Sep26.214517.5114@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> audley@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Christopher D Audley) writes:
>First, In the disktab file there are no entries for hard disks and a little
>comment explaining that /usr/etc/disk and /usr/etc/builddisk can automatically
>figure out a disks geometry, so no disktab entry is required for one or two
>partitions.  The builddisk man page seems to be missing from my system ( was it
>ever there? The newclient man page references it ), so I don't know how to do
>this.  How do you do this, and can you specify the sizes of the partitions?
>Just by poking around it looks like this might work:
>
>	/usr/etc/builddisk -p 330 -s /etc/BLD.sd330 /dev/rsd1a
>
>The "-p 330" assumes 1024K blocks, is this right.  I remember a lot of
>discussion about 512K and 1024K block sizes.

Just in case anyone else was interested -

I messed around with my hard disk this morning I got this to work.  The
command I used was:

	/usr/etc/builddisk -q -l System_2.1 -p 171090 sd1

The -s option is not needed and the -p option takes a number of 512 BYTE
blocks ( not 1024 KByte blocks like I assumed ).  The number I used
is roughly 350MB with no unallocated sectors.  This may have to be tuned
for different disks, or just loose the sectors.

Chris

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Christopher D. Audley
Elec & Comp Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University
Internet: audley@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu