[geeks] what the? (disk space oddness)

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:50:50PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
>   0       root    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
>   1       swap    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
>   2     backup    wu       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
>   3 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
>   4 unassigned    wm       0 -  3091       15.00GB    (3092/0/0)   31464192
>   5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
>   6 unassigned    wm    3092 - 14086       53.35GB    (10995/0/0) 111885120
>   7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
> 
> slice 0 is pretty much "entire disk".  68.35G.
> 
> but from a "df -k":
> 
> /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0    15493995 13950746 1388310    91%    /export/home/hog2      
> 
> Again, "what the heck"

That's weird.  Looks like you're getting s4 instead of s0.

Maybe only a backup slice is allowed to span other slices?  This is kind
of a strange partitioning scheme.  What's the rationale?


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