[geeks] what the? (disk space oddness)

[Lionel Peterson]

> From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at caerllewys.net>
> Date: 2004/05/24 Mon PM 08:08:15 GMT
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] what the?  (disk space oddness)
> 
> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:50:50PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > 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?

Yeah, wonder what the OS makes of that partition table - if you wrote to the "other" partitions, it could get hosed fast, I reckon...

I suspect that if you clean up the partition table (slice "0" and "2" only, it should be fine - could somethig else have one of the "extra" partitions mounted?