From: Mike Ayers (mike.ayersearthling.net)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 13:13:03 CDT

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        Ogle this:

# mount
/dev/wd0a on / type ffs (local)
# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 5082221 804430 4023680 17% /
# disklabel wd0
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: WDC WD800JB-00FS
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 16383
total sectors: 156301488
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
drivedata: 0

16 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
   a: 10497808 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 10414*)
   b: 2097152 10497808 swap # (Cyl. 10414*- 12494)
   c: 156301488 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 155060)
# fdisk wd0
Disk: wd0 geometry: 9729/255/63 [156296385 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
          Starting Ending LBA Info:
  #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
  0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
  1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
  2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
  3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
#

        This system boots and runs fine, but I don't understand why. My problem is
with the zeroed partition table. Is this just a standard way to indicate a
single partition disk, or is something funky going on here?

        Thanks,

/|/|ike

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